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[vivi173]

Request type

• [ ] Please close this issue, I accidentally submitted it without adding any details
• [ ] New documentation
• [x] Correction or update

Details

In Express Tutorial Part 3: Using a Database..., there's a little issue in the section 'Testing - create some items'. Step 3 Run the script using node in your command prompt, passing in the URL of your MongoDB database (the same one you replaced the insert_your_database_url_here placeholder with, inside app.js earlier): Be sure to pass it as a string by wrapping it with ' '.

The URL should not be wrapped by ' ' in order for the query to run successfully on the command prompt. Enclosing it in ' ' throws an error.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs/mongoose

[hamishwillee]

Thanks for reporting. It works for me either with or without '' on Ubuntu 20.04. What platform are you working on?

[vivi173]

Hi Hamish, I'm working on windows 10, version 1909.

[hamishwillee]

Thanks very much! I have removed the offending text :-). FYI only double quotes do work.