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Connecting to Mongo Server with MongooseJS

// import mongoose
const mongoose = require("mongoose")
// read your .env
require("dotenv").config()

// GET YOUR DATABASE_URL VARIABLE FROM YOU .ENV - mongodb://username:password@myhost.com/mydatabasename
const DATABASE_URL = process.env.DATABASE_URL

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Intro to the Backend

Web works via browsers and servers.

• Users type in urls, click on links, submit forms
• The browsers sends a request
• a server receives the request and responds
• may response with html, files, json, etc.

Servers can be written in javascript with a javascript run time, and there are three of them:

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Intro

Bootcamps can be intense and fast paced but anyone at any level can succeed in them, especially if they make the commitment and do some prep beforehand which makes the experience a lot less intense so you can focus on the quality of your work versus just keeping up.

Making the Commitment

Regardless of the length of your particular bootcamp, during that time anything you can take off your plate should be taken off your plate so you can accomodate at least 3 hours for doing homework, practice and research for every 8 hours of class time.

• if your doing 40 hours of class per week, you should expect minimum 15 hours of out of class work per week.
• If your doing 16 hours of class per week, you should expect minimum 6 hours of out of class work per week.

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Basics

Creating a new repository in the current working directory

git init

see what files are and arent in staging

git status

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Data Analytics/Science Terms and Concepts Cheatsheet

Structured Data

Data that is organized to meet a schema. Think tables which organize data into rows and columns.

Unstructured Data

Data is unorganized and lacks a schema. Imagine collections of html documents including text and images not organized in any consistent way.

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/////////////////////////////////
// ./models/connection.js
/////////////////////////////////
// PURPOSE OF THIS FILE TO CONNECT TO MONGO AND EXPORT CONNECTED MONGO OBJECT

require("dotenv").config(); // Loads variables from .env into the process.env object
const mongoose = require('mongoose'); // import a fresh mongoose object

//connect to our db
mongoose.connect(

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REST

REspresentational State Transfer

What is Rest?

REST is an architectural pattern for designing API (Application Programming Interface).

Basically?

• What routes should I make
• What should those routes do

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by Alex Merced of AlexMercedCoder.com and devNursery.com

Table of Contents

• React Project Generators
• Writing Functional Components
• The Rules of JSX
  • Only One Top-Level Element
  • Attributes are Camel Case
  • Inline Styles in JSX
• Arrays of JSX

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Group Work Developer Guide

So your going to be working in a group to develop a small application, this guide will help walk your through the basic steps to get setup as a group for good progress as a group.

Some helpful videos:

• Group Teamwork One - The Workflow
• Group Teamwork Two - Setup

Step 1 - Planning

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Terminology

• a repo: a folder whose files and subfolders are being tracked in on commit chain

• staging: files that have been marked to be included in the next commit

• commit: a snapshot of files in the repo marking all changes in staged files since the last commit

• remote: a repo hosted elsewhere that receives commits from your local repo via pushes and can send your local repo commits via pull