The process of connecting is going to be pretty similar to what we did inside of our MongoDB scripts; for example, the mongodb-connect script. Here, we called MongoClient.connect, passing in a URL. What we're going to do for Mongoose is call mongoose.connect, passing in the exact same URL; mongodb is the protocol, call in //. We're going to be connecting to our localhost database on port 27017. Next up is going to be our /, followed by the database name, and we'll continue to use the TodoApp database, which we used over in the mongodb-connect script.
var mongoose = require('mongoose');mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/TodoApp');
This is where the two functions differ. The MongoClient.connect method ...
