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Javascript Data Modeling
Data Modeling is the process of taking a real world idea and encoding it into Javascript's built in data types.
Modeling Behaviors
CRUD
Create: Add record to a data store
Read: Retrieve a record from a data store
Update: Update a record within a data store
Delete: Remove a record from a data store
Normalization & Validation
Sanity checking data to ensure it conforms to modeling rules prior to doing any operations with it
NoSQL Databases
Traditional databases like Postgres are "Relational", in that they store data in rows and columns and link related records
NoSQL database is based on document storage. Instead of all of the information being stored in many tables, it is all in one record that you can retrieve quickly. They are typically keyed by an ID.
ORMs (Mongoose)
ORM: Object Relation Mapping
Rules for Document databases. Mongoose is a Node library that makes it easy to interface with a Mongo database.