Intro to mongo and using it with nodejs or through mongoose

This is an introduction to mongodb, along with how to use mongo from nodejs via either node-mongodb-native or mongoose. This is for people new to using mongo and who know what nodejs is. I use ubuntu in this screencast, but much of the video content doesn't depend on your OS. If you happen to be using ubuntu 12 from an ec2 instance, then you will be able to exactly duplicate everything I do in the video easily.

[bradcavanaugh]

Thank you.  I appreciate you editing the video, rather than making everyone sit and watch bug fixes, crashes, etc.  Quick and concise.

[chimeces]

Nice video. Very clear and informative. A bit more info about advantages and disadvantages between native and mongoose would have been great. Thank you

[astyanax]

Thanks for the quick and dirty introduction Tyler!

[jonthompson]

Hey Tyler - Thanks for the video!  Great pace and full circle to getting started using mongodb with nodejs.  Exciting times ahead!

[tylerneylon]

Hi Jiří - There are some videos that focus directly on mongoose (just search for "mongoose tutorial" to see what others have made). I wanted to give a good sense of what mongoose is doing behind the scenes. Whenever I use a library that wraps other code, it's good to know this to better understand performance and limitations based on the underlying system.

[JosephKJ]

Excellent tut :) thanks .. BTW was it raining outside?

[robbert-vdh]

Webstorm does such a thing, but since Javascript is not an interpreted language it won't be a lot of help. I swear by IntelliJ IDEA when developing using Java, but I find a simple text editor like Sublime Text 2 much better when writing in languages like Python, Ruby and Javascript.

Great screencast btw

[xhouston]

This helped me get past a road block in my code.  thank you!

[alexmcauley]

Also you do not need to "createCollection" - simply inserting a document will create the collection if it doesn't exist

[Anonymouzee]

Good info... thanks... ?wouldn't be nice to have an editor with intellisense and autocomplete for nodejs.... that also recognises the installed modules... ?anybody know of such a thing???

[alexmcauley]

You missed out adding the apt repo for 10gen to apt-get install mongodb

[Ones_]

I can't type mongo in terminal after install it with npm. any one know why?

Couldn't you make a bigger video focused just on mongoose?