MEAN Stack and MongoDB: Development Techniques

Introduction

• An introduction to MongoDB
• Features of MongoDB

1. Install MongoDB

• Self-hosted vs. managed MongoDB
• Enterprise vs. Community
• Install MongoDB on Mac
• Install MongoDB on Windows
• Install MongoDB on Linux

2. Set Up Your Database

• Mongod
• Replica set
• Set up a replica set from the command line
• Set up a replica set with config files
• Import the sample data
• Debug

3. Working with MongoDB

• The document model
• Namespaces, collections, documents
• MongoDB Query Language
• Indexes
• Challenge: Indexes
• Solution: Indexes

4. CRUD Operations

• insertOne and insertMany
• findOne and find
• Comparison operators
• Logical operators
• Sort, skip, limit
• updateOne and updateMany
• Arrays
• Transactions
• $expr
• Challenge: Create app
• Solution: Create app

5. Aggregation Pipelines

• An overview of stages
• $group
• $bucket
• $unwind
• $merge and $out
• $function
• $lookup
• Performance
• Challenge: Write aggregation pipelines
• Solution: Write aggregation pipelines

6. Data Modeling

• Relational vs. document
• Data modeling
• Flexible schema
• Challenge: Create a data model
• Solution: Create a data model

7. Drivers

• Drivers
• Connecting with Python
• Connecting with JavaScript
• Connecting with PHP

Conclusion

• Advancing with MongoDB