My Node.js, MongoDB Atlas REST API Environment Setup

A primer to make sure you have the tools you need to succeed in Node API development

Ryan James
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJan 28, 2020

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Objective: Launch a simple Node.js application after setting up a local development environment, test an API through Postman, and establish a database connection to MongoDB Atlas.

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