Mongoose Tutorial | Learn the Basics of Mongoose.js and MongoDB in 10 Minutes

In this Mongoose tutorial, we'll walk through everything you need to know about Mongoose to get up and running with creating and saving data into your MongoDB database.

MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database which stores things in "documents" instead of tables. Working with mongo feels much more native to Javascript than a traditional database due to its JSON-like data storage.

This is a great tutorial for beginners as it shows the core concepts in a concise way.

Mongoose.js is is a javascript library built on top of MongoDB that makes data modeling much easier. It's a popular library to use in combination with Node and Express to develop web applications and JSON APIs.

You can watch us build a JSON API with Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB (with Mongoose JS) here: https://youtu.be/HPo0QhlX5Ao