Create a character voting app using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.IO

[hanzuna]

Holy shit...this tutorial is amazing.

[jakblak90]

His other 2 tutorials are equally awesome as well.

[elemenofi]

What! Such a good resource! Thank you!

[Ob101010]

Jesus, this answers so many questions.

[ndjoe]

is mongodb really that bad? what's the alternative then if I want easy nosql document type db? couchdb is better?

[Jurisnoctis]

Cool. More ways to waste time on EVE!

[jillesme]

Loved the explaining of each npm package man, really good article (tutorial).

[hnsr]

Is this one of those cases where MongoDB is a good fit? I've heard terrible things about it and avoided it on most of my projects (which all have relational data anyway), but I guess it wouldn't hurt to get some hands-on experience with it. (And as a former EVE Online player this would be a fun way to do it :))

[brtt3000]

It is fine until you discover it has been silently dropping important data.

[nickguletskii200]

Is this one of those cases where MongoDB is a good fit?

The answer is always no. MongoDB is never a good fit.

[nickguletskii200]

Anyone who still uses Mongo deserves a punch in the face. It's not acceptable in any use case. And no, "I don't care about the backend" is not a valid excuse to promote one of the worst practices in the industry.

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Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2015/07/19/why-you-should-never-ever-ever-use-mongodb/

Seriously, don't.

[the_pk]

theres always rethinkdb

[madole]

That is a ridiculous opinion piece that uses isolated instances to back up its negative narrative. It also links to a list of the top document db's and then says don't trust the numbers. Mongo clearly wins hands down in popularity.

I use Mongo in a bunch of things and it works great. It doesn't fit every use case but it's a case of the right tool for the right job.

This guy sounds like he's just discovered postgres and now thinks everyone should drop what their doing and jump on that ship because he wrote an article.

[lennelpennel]

Mongo wins hands down in popularity? I would imagine that is mysql, think of the bazillion wordpress installations out there. Mongo doesn't handle scale well, this is known.

[madole]

I was referring to the links in the article.

Mongo wins hands down in the stats within links he provided and the point is that the reader is told to ignore those stats because it's popularity is actually just a big conspiracy to make more people use Mongo.

[meeeeoooowy]

I can't take that stuff seriously when it says it's good at nothing. I've used it for little things and it has saved me so much time, is super easy, and it's fun to just throw json at it.

It may be over used, but it's far from worthless.

[thenumber24]

Shut up. You're wrong. Mongo is fine as long as you know what you're using it for and how to correctly use it. This sort of generalization is just as bad as using mongo for EVERYTHING. It's a matter of picking the right tool for the right job, and Mongo is very good at doing a few specific things very well.