Sean Valdivia — Sprint-Challenge-Mongo

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+1. Describe the following: `Database`, `Collection`, `Document`
+  * A database is the largest file group in mongo. 
+  * A collection is a group of documents within a database.
+  * A document is a specific piece of data saved to the mongodb.
+  * From the ground up the relationship between `Database`, `Collection`, and `Document` looks like this:
+  * A document is a specific piece of data, a collection is mongo's way of
+  * organizing documents and a database is the outer container holding all 
+  * the collections and documents. 
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+  2. Describe how one can achieve the pattern of relationships in MongoDB. 
+  What needs to take place at the schema level? How do we fill in the
+  appropriate relational data using mongoose? 
+  * We can add fields into one schema with and ObjectId that references data from another schema. 
+  * We can then use the mongoose .populate() method.
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+  3. Explain a way to break up an API into Sub-Applications, which tool did
+  we use to do that?
+  * We can break up an API by creating routes and sub routes. We use express
+  to do that, but we can also use other middleware.