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JavaScript Build a REST API With Express Modeling Data for the API Connecting Mongoose to MongoDB

Posted by Cynthia Smith
Cynthia Smith
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trying to connect Mongoose to Mongodb

This is my error message in the terminal:setups-MacBook-Pro:rest_api_app Cynthia$ node mongoose_sandbox.js /Users/Cynthia/Documents/treehouse/rest_api_app/mongoose_sandbox.js:11 }); ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ) at createScript (vm.js:56:10) at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10) at Module._compile (module.js:542:28) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3) at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10) at run (bootstrap_node.js:383:7) at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9) setups-MacBook-Pro:rest_api_app Cynthia$ node mongoose_sandbox.js connection error: { Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017 at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11) at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1043:20) at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1090:14) name: 'MongoError', message: 'connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017' } setups-MacBook-Pro:rest_api_app Cynthia$

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FYI it seems like there's a syntax error. The error shows up in the error as being on line 56 of vm.js. But it seems like this is a error message related to some sort of build process or windows virtual machine.

At any rate, the syntax error is probably in your code, not actually in vm.js. I suggest running your code through a tool like JSHint where you can often get more meaningful hints and error messages.

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Cynthia Smith
Cynthia Smith
8,031 Points
Cynthia Smith
Cynthia Smith
8,031 Points

Here is the link to my GitHub files: https://github.com/rockandrollbaby/rest_api_app.

I went into JSHint and it says that require is not defined. But, I defined it in this statement.: var mongoose = require("mongoose");