What is a TransientTransactionError in Mongoose (or MongoDB)?

Question

I have server.js and db.js The db.js file interacts with my database using Mongoose and I use server.js to call functions

Answer 1

I encountered this error when running the populatedb.js script in the MDN tutorial for Express/NodeJS.

The script was looking for a db connection starting with mongodb://, however my connection string from mongo started with mongodb+srv://.

I edited the script to check for this syntax instead, which resolved the error.

I hope this helps someone.