Cannot read property collection of null

[sanketfirodiya]

Getting this error in my slack bot project

[Gareth]

Have you created a collection in your mlab (or wherever else you’re hosting your MongoDB) database and set its name in your .env file? See step 3 in setup.md.

[sanketfirodiya]

@Gareth Yes.

This is my collection in mlabl:

[sanketfirodiya]

And my .env file:

[Gareth]

Check your database env values. I can reproduce the error when I deliberately set the database name (db in .env) to something incorrect for example.