So I have been experimenting with mongodb a little these days as I am interesting in writing some content on the subject, aside from the fact that it will typically be the database solution I will run into when working in a node.js environment. In this post I will be writing abut enabling authentication for a database.
In this post on mongodb, I will be writing about making mongodb shell scripts. These are scripts that can be called from the mongodb shell with the load command, or directly from the main os command line interface my calling mongodb and then passing the path of the js file. These scripts can be used to work with any of the database methods in the mongo shell such as db.getName.
In this post I will be giving a quick overview of working with models in mongoose.js. If you are not aware mongoose.js is a javaScript library to help make it easier to work with mongodb, a popular javaScript friendly database solution that is used in node.js powered full stack apps.
So these days I have been experimenting with express as a way to make node.js powered full stack applications. In many of these simple projects I have been using lowdb as a database solution, which works fine when it comes to simple projects that are going to be used off line. However if I aim to make something that will be deployed to a server, I am going to want to use something a little more professional, for this there is of course mongodb, and mongoose.js. This post will be a getting stared post on using mongoose.js to work with mongodb as a database solution.
I have been writing posts on express.js, and am now at a point in which I am just making some projects based that include express.js. I have a post on a basic express todo app, a middleware that responds to requests with json, and now the project that I am going to write about in this post that has to do with using three.js to visualizing my google analytics data that I am just calling express_visual_analytics. I think one of the best ways to learn something a little complicated, is to just start building something interesting with it, and learn as I go. That has been the case with this project, and as such it only makes sense that I write about it.