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I'm a super n00b at setting up servers - just learning back-end stuff right now so I'm having a hard time googling for solutions because my technical language is lacking - I apologize in advance for the n00b question.

I'm following along with a Traversy media video to try and get a little more familiar with setting up a server and using a database to store and retrieve data. The video uses mongoose/mongodb - I've only got a little experience using postgreSQL and I'm not even close to proficient with that so conceptually this is all still pretty unfamiliar.

I'm finding that it's really tedious to open three terminal windows to make my project run properly. I'm using mongoose v5.4.2, express v4.16.4 and (though I doubt it's relevant) I'm using express-handlebars v3.0.0 on the most current version of macOS (10.14.2) (using the native terminal).

In my package.json I have no scripts.

What I'm trying to avoid: having to open a few terminal tabs and run the mongo daemon (cmd: mongod), then running the mongo client in a separate tab (cmd: mongo). I am a noob but this seems like it would be a great place to have some basic scripting to save me from having to do this every time I open the project or make changes to things.

My app.js (which is the entry point to my project) has the following code to import and run mongoose:

const express = require('express')

const exphbs = require('express-handlebars')

const mongoose = require('mongoose')



const app = express()



mongoose.Promise = global.Promise



// Connect to Mongoose

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/vidjot-dev', { useNewUrlParser: true } )

  .then(() => console.log('MongoDB Connected'))

  .catch(err => console.log(err))

I have verified that my project is running on the specified port (3000 for my project) and I can get my mongoose db running - but only if I run the mongo daemon and then the mongoose client.

Please forgive a lack of specificity/technical correctness in my language - I'm very new to this stuff. I hope that I've provided enough information but edit post to provide anything that anyone else would think is relevant. I used the guided version to post this so I think I hit all the required/expected information.

I am not completely sure, but it can work to some extent. Add below script in your package.json file.

"scripts": {

  "prestart": "start mongod --config ./data/mongod.cfg",

  "start": "node ./server/bin/www",

  "poststart": "start mongo admin --eval "db.getSiblingDB('admin').shutdownServer()"",

},