Use mongoose in an imported html file

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How could i use mongoose in an imported script?
In js/main.html

<script src="js/main.js"></script>

And in main.js

const mongoose = require("mongoose");

This gives as output require is not defined.

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Sounds like you want the javascript running on the user’s browser to connect to the database. Potentially you could get this to work, but its not a good idea because then the user and password would be publicly exposed.

Its better to put that mongoose code in a server-side script, for example in a node express app. Try create a new app, selecting node express, and you’ll get a server.js script to connect to the database from.

Then the server app connects to the database, and sends data to the page on the client.

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ah k thanks, can you give me an example how to pass data through?

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Hi @RobinSchapendonk, there are different ways of serving data to a client. Two often used ways are:

  • javascript on client page requests data from the server, a nice simple example by Glitch staff is https://glitch.com/~low-db

  • client browser requests a page, server renders a html page from a template plus the data and sends to the client. This is more conceptually difficult, an example by Glitch staff is https://glitch.com/~mongodb-sync

There are a heap of variations on the above, using all sorts of tech, I recommend exploring from Glitch’s home page to see what apps are on show.

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