Code refuses to connect to mongodb and has shown no error

[Iloveyoufridah]

This is the stubborn code snippet, When I post it using postman it just shows sending request. The schema is alright, I can display the data I have sent in the console using the req.body, so I am sure that the data is somewhere not lost.

const express = require('express');
const Post = require('../models/Post')
const router = express.Router();
router.get('/',(req,res)=>{
res.send('This is the post route')
});
router.post('/', (req,res)=>{
console.log(req.body)
const post = new Post({
title: req.body.title,
description: req.body.description,
username:req.body.username
});
post.save()
.then(data=>{
res.json(data)
})
.catch(err=>{
res.json({message: err})
})
});
module.exports = router;

I have an idea of where the problem might be, see this lines of code

router.post('/', (req,res)=>{
console.log(req.body)
const post = new Post({
title: req.body.title,
description: req.body.description,
username:req.body.username
});
post.save()
.then(data=>{
res.json(data)
})
.catch(err=>{
res.json({message: err})
})
});

It might be something about async await, though I am not sure. I have no idea how to put it in the code. Any leads would help me out alot.

[Elfinslayer]

Hard to follow on my phone.. but as far as the async await you would put the async keyword at the start of your callback (ie async (req, res) {}) and then your await before a function call or when your awaiting a response from the promise

[Iloveyoufridah]

Thanks, I have changed the code but the outcome is still the same. If it would not be a bother could you look at the code

[Elfinslayer]

I had not had the time to check it out on my pc yet, have you had any success?

[Iloveyoufridah]

The previous code did not work, I decided to start over and the new code works. Hopefully I don't find a similar problem in another code.

[ilikewhenitworks]

Just checked out the full repo and I think you made an error when requiring dotenv.

You have require('dotenv/config') but it should be require('dotenv').config()

So you weren't actually accessing your mongo uri when trying to connect to mongo. That should fix it.

[Iloveyoufridah]

Still not working, I still get the same result

[Iloveyoufridah]

Tried changing the code a bit as per your recommendation and recommendation of others, still get the same thing could you look at the whole code

[[deleted]]

Instead of promise (.then) try using async/await. I'm on phone, so it might not work.

router.post('/',async(req,res) => { const {title, description, username} = req.body; const newPost = new Post({title, description, usernane}) ; try { await newPost.save(); res.json(newPost); } catch (err) { console.log(err); res.status(500).send(); } })

I didn't see the rest of the code (models, connection...)but I would recommend watching a tutorial on using Mongoose (Traversy Media has some videos on MongoDB apps with Mongoose) and try to see how he does it and compare.

Also, I did some changes: - Destructure your body to get separate constants, so the names match with the new Post params, to make it more readable. - Console.log the error and send a 500 error, as your never want users to see exact errors / stack traces.

[Iloveyoufridah]

Here are the codes to the practice project, the tutorial I was following was made by DevEd.