URL shortener - help

#1

Nothing I do ever works… Someone cares to explain what’s wrong with this simple routing+mongo halfway implementation for the url shortener?
I found the solution in the forums but I want to understand why my way doesn’t work… I sometimes get 404, and sometimes " conn.openUri(…).then is not a function". I used the Express generator for the basic files.

/app.js:

app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');

app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.use('/', shortenerRouter);
app.use('/shortUrl', getShortUrlRouter);

// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  next(createError(404));
});

// error handler
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
  // set locals, only providing error in development
  res.locals.message = err.message;
  res.locals.error = req.app.get('env') === 'development' ? err : {};

  // render the error page
  res.status(err.status || 500);
  res.render('error');
});

module.exports = app;

routes/index.js

const ShortUrls = require('../models/shortUrl');

const shortenerRouter = express.Router();

shortenerRouter.use(bodyParser.json());

/* GET home page. */
shortenerRouter.route('/')
.get(function(req, res, next) {
  console.log(".get")
  res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });

})
//send long url to get short url
.post(function (req, res, next) {

  next()

  });

module.exports = shortenerRouter;

/routes/getShortUrl.js:

const ShortUrls = require('../models/shortUrl');

const getShortUrlRouter = express.Router();

getShortUrlRouter.use(bodyParser.json());

//get short url return long url
getShortUrlRouter.route('/:shortUrl')
.get((req, res, next) => {

  const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/UrlShortener';
  mongoose.connect(url, {useNewUrlParser: true});

  const db = mongoose.connection;
  db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));
  db.once('open', () => {
    console.log(".get :shortUrl: " + req.params.shortUrl);
    ShortUrls.find({shortUrl: req.params.shortUrl}, (err, data)=>{
      if (err) return console.error(err)
      console.log(data)
      res.send("long url: " + data);
    })

    })
    next()
});

module.exports = getShortUrlRouter;

models/shortUrl.js:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;
require('mongoose-currency').loadType(mongoose);

const shortUrlSchema = new Schema({
  longUrl: String,
  shortUrl: {type: String, unique: true}
})

var ShortUrls = mongoose.model('ShortUrls', shortUrlSchema);

module.exports = ShortUrls;
#2