Do you need a MongoDB package or is the mongoose package sufficient?

[alinarub]

Hello again,

We are in the process of implementing a database connection to MongoDB. We already created a cluster. Now Atlas is asking us to install a mongodb package.

Do we need this package or is the mongoose package enough? Do themongoose and mongodb packages rule each other out or are both necessary for different scenarios? Once the database is running and we have the connection url we are good to go, but until then we need some support.

Thank you ☺️

[NikRoe]

Hi there,

you won't need the mongodb package. Going only with mongoose will suffice!

[gregorsart]

Hi there,

we followed the instructions to connect MongoDB.
Unfortunately we get the following error when we try to read the dummy data in VSC we created in Atlas beforehand:

Error [OverwriteModelError]: Cannot overwrite `Statistics` model once compiled.

We appreciate every help.

[gregorsart]

Nevermind, we found the error for that: We spelled something wrong in:

  mongoose.models.Statistics || mongoose.model("Statistics", statisticsSchema);```

[gregorsart]

Hi , we progressed a little bit, but we get a response of:

304 Not Modified``
when we query the MongoDB database.

The data object we receive is an empty array, but is should be the number `26` we defined as dummy data in Atlas GUI.

[gregorsart]

With the help of Niklas we found the issue. We did not consider that the dummy data we initially created in Atlas GUI wasn't used at all by our Schema used in VSC with mongoose. Instead, Mongoose uses the VSC defined Schema and "pushes" it to Mongo DB as a new collection.