Backend development & APIs Certification - Mongoose connection problem, submission rejected

Backend Development
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[Disclaimer: This is my first post on this forum, if I am not following some part of the posting guidelines please let me know.]

I am on the Mongoose and MongoDB section of this certification in the curriculum. I required mongoose and tried to connect to my database using the URI I copy pasted from MongoDB atlas:

let mongoose = require("mongoose");

mongoose.connect(
  process.env.MONGO_URI
);
console.log(mongoose.connection.readyState) // This is 2 ("connecting")

My URI in the .env file has the form:

MONGO_URI="mongodb+srv://haadbhutta:<password_redacted>@fcc-cluster.3lteu.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=fcc-cluster"

I ran npm install mongoose@latest and npm install mongodb in the terminal and my package.json shows:

"dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.15.2",
    "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
    "express": "^4.12.4",
    "mongodb": "^6.11.0",
    "mongoose": "^8.8.4"
  }

The challenge (challenge number 1 about setting up mongoose and mongodb) will not accept my submission. with the following output:

// running tests
1. "mongoose version ^5.11.15" dependency should be in package.json
2. "mongoose" should be connected to a database
// tests completed
// console output
[Error]
[Error]

I deliberately changed the mongoose version because of problems with useUrlParser and useUnifiedTopology.

What am I doing wrong?

2

Don’t update the boilerplate dependencies, and just ignore all deprecation warnings.

3

Oh, strange. That worked.