MongoDB deep dive

Understanding CRUD, mongoose and building an end to end

authenticated app
Supreme Court example
 What is a database
It is a place where data is stored persistently

Express

Browser Database
Express

Express
 What is a database
It is a place where data is stored persistently

Express

Servers autoscale

Browser Database
Express

Express
 What is a database
It is a place where data is stored persistently

Servers are transient

Browser Database
Express

Express
 What is a database
It is a place where data is stored persistently

Database is persistent

Browser Database
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Express
 What is a database
Examples of data stored in databases -

For Linkedin
1. User data
2. Users posts
3. Users connection relationships
4. Messages
 What is a database
Examples of data stored in databases -

Does auth checks

Get me my feed
Express
Give me all posts for this user

Database
Express
 What is a database
Good question to have at this point

Why don’t we let the user hit the database directly?

What extra does the http server provide exactly?

Give me all posts for myself

Database
 What is a database
Good question to have at this point

Why don’t we let the user hit the database directly?

What extra does the http server provide exactly?

1. Databases were are created using protocols that browsers don’t understand
2. Databases don’t have granual access as a rst class citizen. Very hard to do user speci c access in them
3. There are some databases ( rebase) that let you get rid of the http server and try their best to provide granola access

Give me all posts for myself

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 What is a database

Databases usually allow access to 4 primitives

1. Create Data
2. Read Data
3. Update Data
4. Delete Data
Popularly known as CRUD
 What is a database

Let’s see the API for the mongoose library

Eventually, we’ll be using prisma (which is the industry standard way of doing this)

In mongoose, rst you have to de ne the schema

This sounds counter intuitive since mongodb is schemaless?
That is true, but mongoose makes you de ne schema for things like autocompletions/
Validating data before it goes in the DB to make sure you’re doing things right
Schemaless Dbs can be very dangerous, using schemas in mongo makes it slightly less
Dangerous
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 What is a database

De ning schema
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What is a database
Create
What is a database
Read
What is a database
Update
What is a database
Delete
 What is a database

Cluster

3 Jargons to know in Databases Database Database Database

1. Cluster
2. Database Table Table Table Table Table Table
3. Table
Table Table Table Table Table Table
What is a database
What would this mean for a simple course app

Cluster

Database

Users Admins

Courses
 What is a database
What would this mean for a simple course app

Cluster

Database

Users
Id | Email | Password | Name | Age User Admins
1 | [email protected] | 123123 | harkirat | 20
2 | [email protected] | kirat123 | harkirat | 22
Purchase
Courses
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 What is a database
What would this mean for a simple course app

Cluster

Database

Admins
Id | Email | Password | Name User Admins
1 | [email protected] | 123123 | Raman
2 | [email protected] | 123123 | Kirat
Purchase
Courses
s
 What is a database

Cluster

Database

Courses
id | Title | Description | Price User Admins
1. | Full stack | Learn Full stack | 5000
2. | Web3 | Learn Web3. | 3999
Purchase
Courses
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 What is a database
What would this mean for a simple course app

Cluster

Database

Purchases
user_id | course_id | timestamp | payment_ref User Admins
1. |1 | 02/12/2024. | pay_123123
2. |1 | 02/12/2024. | pay_331213
Purchase
Courses
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What is a database
Lets try to target the assignments from this week
 What is a database

Something extra

You can attach methods to schema

And call them on objects later