From the course: Create a CRM Mobile Application with React Native

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Node and express backend setup

Node and express backend setup

- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at the backend we'll use for our React Native application. For mobile applications, you have multiple choices you can use for backend. If you prefer using your own, you can quickly get started with one such as the Node Express API we'll leverage from another one of my courses. Or you can leverage cloud options such as Google's Firebase. In this case, I have one prebuilt for you and let's set it up. So the first thing you need to do is have MongoDB install, the Community Edition. So the way to get to that, you go to mongodb.com/try/download/community. And when you get to that page, what you need to do is go down here and follow the instructions. There's a simple install if you have Homebrew where you do brew install mongodb-atlas and then atlas setup. Or you can go into the further instructions and download it from here, there's more options. So just follow the instructions to install it on your system. Once MongoDB is up and running, then you can…

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