MongoDB serves as an open-source NoSQL database management program, particularly adept at handling extensive sets of distributed data. Learning to integrate MongoDB within a Nest.js application involves using the Mongoose package, which is recommended for its robust modeling and validation tools that are absent in the native driver.

Mongoose operates as an object-oriented JavaScript library that facilitates a connection between MongoDB and the Node.js runtime environment. It simplifies the interaction with MongoDB by providing schema validation and the ability to translate between objects in code and their representation within MongoDB, which is a best practice for maintaining data integrity and consistency.

Open your terminal and create a new project with nest-cli

Install these two packages to connect with MongoDB database

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MongoDB serves as an open-source NoSQL database management program, particularly adept at handling extensive sets of distributed data. Learning to integrate MongoDB within a Nest.js application involves using the Mongoose package, which is recommended for its robust modeling and validation tools that are absent in the native driver.

Mongoose operates as an object-oriented JavaScript library that facilitates a connection between MongoDB and the Node.js runtime environment. It simplifies the interaction with MongoDB by providing schema validation and the ability to translate between objects in code and their representation within MongoDB, which is a best practice for maintaining data integrity and consistency.

### Step 1: Create a new Project

Open your terminal and create a new project with nest-cli

Haider Malik

Install MongoDB using Docker Compose

In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to install MongoDB using Docker

If you don't have a stall MongoDB on your machine, you can install it manually

I have already installed Docker on my machine.

You can see that here is my Docker is running now.

But we don't have any projects right now to use with MongoDB.

I don't want to install MongoDB in my previous project.

We're going to create a new project to play around with MongoDB database.

I can say nest new and we need to provide the name of your project.

I can say and Mongo production, nest.js project with MongoDB and I want to ship

It will take some time to install the dependencies.

My project has created successfully all the dependencies have installed.

I'm going to open the project into my VS code.

Let me run the project by using npm run start dev.

Let's commit in it and I would like to create a new branch.

To connect with MongoDB, we will install this dependency or this package in the

We need nest.js/mongos package and we need mongos separate package.

We're going to use docket compose to start MongoDB driver.

I'm going to create a new file in the root directory.

You need to define the service MongoDB or Mongo.

I can say mongodb database and we need to provide the name of the database

We need to get the latest image from the Docker repository.

Docker Hub, or you can say let's define the port.

To start MongoDB driver, you have to execute this command.

I'm going to open my project into root directory and let's execute this command

I think already allocated, I think my already project is running on 2701 Docker

You can play around with gui with mongodb database.

It is going to ask me the host and the port.

I can say localhost and this is the port 2701 because my mongodb is running on

You can have the collection which is songs.

You can see that I have interacted with mongodb database and I created a new

Our mongodb driver is running successfully.

In the next video, I'll teach you how to connect Nestias application with mong

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