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Okay.

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So in this lesson, we're going to set up our MongoDB database using MongoDB Atlas, which is a cloud

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version, meaning you don't have to install Mongo on your local machine.

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And then when we deploy, you don't have to install it on your your dev.

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I'm sorry, your production server.

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So you just need to go to Mongodb.com.

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It's completely free for the plan that we're going to be using.

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Obviously if you have a larger production app, you're going to want to pay for your services, but

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they do have a very generous free tier for testing and for small projects.

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So what we're going to do is or what you're going to want to do is sign up, okay, Once you sign up,

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you're just going to log in.

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I'm going to do right now.

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And and I have multiple accounts.

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This one I cleared out for specifically for this course.

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So you're going to have to create, most likely create an organization.

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I already have one called Traversy Media.

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And then you can create a project.

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So we'll call this pro shop.

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And then if you have other members, you can add them.

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But it's just me, so I'm going to click Create Project.

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And then we should be able to create our database cluster.

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So if you see this screen, don't worry about this current IP address not added.

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We'll do that in a minute.

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But just click on build a database and we're going to choose the M0 free option and AWS will use that

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as the provider and then we can click Create.

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Now this is where you're going to add your database user.

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So and this is different from your MongoDB user.

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So I'm going to use Brad one, two, three for the username as well as the password.

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And then make sure you click this button.

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I know it's easy to miss, so from here you want to add your IP address, so it should actually be added

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automatically.

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And this is my VPN.

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I'll probably blur it out anyways, but it should get added automatically.

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If it doesn't, then just click this button right here and it will add your address.

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Okay.

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So then we can click finish and close and then go to databases.

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And then you should see a screen like this.

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Now to get our connection string.

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If you click on Connect, there's a couple options here.

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So we want this connect to your application and this is the string that will use from our application.

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So let's copy that.

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And then what we're going to do is put that into an environment variable.

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So in the dot env file, let's say Mongo underscore Uri and let's set that to that connection string.

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Now there's a couple of things we need to change here.

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For one, we need to add the password.

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So whatever you used as a password, go ahead and add that here.

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And don't worry, this is only on the server, this isn't displayed on the client, so people aren't

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going to see this or anything.

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And then also after the slash, if we don't put anything, it's going to use a database called test.

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And I actually want to have our database called Pro Shop.

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So we're just going to add that there.

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Okay.

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And then we'll save that.

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Now let's come back over here and click on Browse collections and if we had data in here, you'd be

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able to see it.

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But we don't.

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However, I'm going to say add my own data and then for the database name we're going to say pro shop

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because that's what I put in the connection string, and you can add a collection as well.

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So for now, let's just add our products collection.

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And then click Create.

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So now we have a database called Pro Shop with a products collection, and you don't have to manually

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add your collections through the interface with with NoSQL databases like this.

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You can create them through your application.

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So we didn't actually have to create this collection now, but I did want to specify the database name.

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All right.

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So I think that's pretty much it as far as what I want to do right now in this video.

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Make sure your dot git ignore.

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Make sure you have the dot env file in here because you don't want to push that to your repo.

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What I would suggest doing is creating something like a let's say example dot env and then you could

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push that and just have the actual variables but without the values.

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So I could do this.

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I mean these two really don't matter, but this one.

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He would say something like Add.

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Add.

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Your.

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Uh, Mongo, Uri or something like that.

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Okay.

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Just so.

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Just so if other people are going to use this application, they know which variables they need, then

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they can just rename this to dot env.

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All right.

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So that's all we're going to do here.

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And the next video, I want to show you how we can connect to our database using a tool called Compass

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so that if you need to get directly into your database to read or create data or update data, you can

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do that very easily.