MongoDB and Mongoose - Install and Set Up Mongoose

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I have been trying for hours, read through all the forums and I still can’t seem to understand what’s wrong with it.

It kept on giving me the error:

    1. “mongoose” should be connected to a database

This are my codes:
.env

MONGO_URI=‘mongodb+srv://weird:Lm9fHhgjz6hquPA6@cluster0.bghfh.mongodb.net/apple?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=Cluster0’

myApp.js

const mongoose = require(‘mongoose’);
mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URI, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });

package.json

“dependencies”: {
“body-parser”: “^1.15.2”,
“dotenv”: “^8.2.0”,
“express”: “^4.12.4”,

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Challenge Information:

MongoDB and Mongoose - Install and Set Up Mongoose

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Hello, The instructions say mongoose is added to your project, but where is it? I don`t see it in the pkg.json.

“mongoose version ^5.11.15” dependency should be in package.json

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You are also not using dotenv in the code you posted. You should keep the require('dotenv').config(); at the top of the file.

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