Start Using Mongoose, and create a schema model

So you've gotten a basic exposure to the workings of mongodb.

One big challenge is actually knowing what's being stored in your database (the organization and content). That's why typically we use an ORM (Object-relational mapping) to define our schema so we know what's actually in our database. Otherwise, sharing this amoung multiple developers it's hard to figure out what data actually exists (Especially when dealing with a schemaless database)

var kittySchema = mongoose.Schema({
    name: String
});

This defines that in our Mongo Database, we're going to store an object that contains a name. We can use this information to find objects in our database as needed.

[ ] Read through the mongoose documentation
[ ] Add Mongoose to your project (Remember the npm command)
[ ] Setup schemas to store information for each breed (Including images, information, and GitHub url)
[ ] Add a few breeds to your schema (You can even call the api to do so)
[ ] Output those in your page using a templating engine

This is on our step to ultimately setting up an api, as Mongoose is the thing I pretty much use on every project.

tsellstrom / crudnodeproject

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