Where Do We Use Mongo?

Fundamentals of MongoDB

A Last Touch of Setup

Project Overview

The Test Helper File

Mongoose Connection Helper

Mongoose Models

More on Models

The Basics of Mocha

Running Mocha Tests

Creating Model Instances

Saving Users to Mongo

Dropping Collections

Mocha's Done Callback

Mongoose's isNew Property

Default Promise Implementation

Test Setup for Finding Users

Making Mongo Queries

The ID Property - A Big Gotcha

Automating Tests with Nodemon

Finding Particular Records

Many Ways to Remove Records

Class Based Removes

More Class Based Removals

The Many Ways to Update Records

Set and Save for Updating Records

Model Instance Updates

Class Based Updates

Update Operators

The Increment Update Operator

Validation of Records

Requiring Attributes on a Model

Validation With a Validator Function

Handling Failed Inserts

Embedding Resources in Models

Nesting Posts on Users

Testing Subdocuments

Adding Subdocuments to Existing Records

Removing Subdocuments

Virtual Types

Defining a Virtual Type

ES6 Getters

Fixing Update Tests

Challenges of Nested Resources

Embedded Documents vs Separate Collections

BlogPosts vs Posts

Creating Associations with Refs

Test Setup for Associations

Wiring Up Has Many and Has One Relations

Promise.All for Parallel Operations

Populating Queries

Loading Deeply Nested Associations

Cleaning Up with Middleware

Dealing with Cyclic Requires

Pre-Remove Middleware

Testing Pre-Remove Middleware

Skip and Limit

Writing Skip and Limit Queries

Sorting Collections

Project Overview

First Step - Artist and Album Models

The Album Schema

The Artist Model

Finding Particular Records

FindOne vs FindById

The CreateArtist Operation

Solution to Creating Artists

Deleting Singular Records

Solution to Removing

Editing Records

How to Edit Single Artists

Minimum and Maximum Values in a Collection

Solution to Min and Max Queries

Challenge Mode - Search Query

Sorting, Limiting, and Skipping Together

Danger! Big Challenge Ahead

Filtering By Single Properties

Filtering with Multiple Props

Handling Text Search

Indexes and Text Search

Batch Updates

The Hidden 'Multi' Setting

Seeding Many Records

Counting the Result Set

App Overview

Designing API Routes

Project Setup

HTTP Request Methods

The Basics of Express

Express Boilerplate

Handling Requests with Express

Testing Express Apps with Mocha

Running Mocha

Project Structure

Refactoring for Controllers and Models

The Driver Model

The Create Drivers Route

The BodyParser Middleware

Testing Driver Creation

More on Testing Driver Creation

Additional Mongoose Setup

Driver Implementation

Testing Endpoints with Postman

Dev vs Test Environments

Separate Test Databases

Middlewares in Express

Handling Editing of Drivers

Testing Driver Updates

Handling Deletion of Drivers

Testing Driver Deletion

Geography with MongoDB

The GeoJSON Schema

GeoNear Queries

Testing a GeoNear Query

One Big Gotcha

Another Big Gotcha

Testing GeoQueries