How to Connect Node.js to a MongoDB Database

Many different libraries and tools exist to help facilitate the connection between a Node Server and a MongoDB instance. In this lesson, we'll introduce and use the Node MongoDB driver to make our server connect with the MongoDB cluster we've created in Atlas.

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Section 5.1Connecting to the Database