Setting up Monk & Mongoose for Express and Node.js

/* MONK */

//1.

$npm install -—save monk

//2. in your route (ex: index.js)

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var db = require('monk')('localhost:27017/test'); //MongoDB database named 'test'
var userData = db.get('user-data'); //get the user-data collection from test in MongoDB

/* MONGOOSE */

//1.

$npm install —-save mongoose

//2. in your route (ex: index.js)

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('localhost:27017/test');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

//create a Model Schema/layout
var userDataSchema = new Schema({
  title: {type: String, required: true},
  content: String
}, {collection: 'user-data'}); //set the MongoDB's collection name for this schema

//define the UserData Model and set the Model's schema
var UserData = mongoose.model('UserData', userDataSchema);