Creating a MongoDB Atlas account
\nWhen a user submits the registration form, we will send the user details to the server and save them in a database.
\nWe will use MongoDB, which is a document database. In MongoDB, databases hold one or more collections of documents.
\nCollection: Collections are analogous to tables in relational databases. Each record in a MongoDB collection is a document.
\nDocument: MongoDB stores data records as BSON documents, which are binary representations of JSON documents. MongoDB documents have similar structure to JavaScript objects and are composed of field-value pairs. MongoDB does not require that all documents have the same structure.
\nWe will be using MongoDB Atlas (cloud based database-as-a-service) free tier to provide the database. This makes the “installation” operating system independent. I also use it as my production database for www.sundaray.io.
\nFirst, we will create an account on MongoDB Atlas, which is a fully-managed cloud database developed by the same people that build MongoDB.
\nGo ahead and register for a new Atlas account at the following link.
\nhttps://account.mongodb.com/account/register
\nYou can register for an Atlas account using your Google account or email address.
\nDuring the registration process, MongoDB will ask you to set an organization name and a project name.
\nAn organization can contain multiple projects. By having multiple projects within an organization, you can isolate different environments (for instance development/production) from each other.
\nBy using the FREE TIER, the default setup is to deploy a MongoDB cluster with a replica set.
\nWhen you deploy your application, you would want everyone to access your application.
\nIn the clusters view, click on COLLECTIONS.
Click on Create and MongoDB will create our database. We will need the database name later.
With this, our MongoDB Atlas configuration is complete.
\nGo to part-7
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