MongoError: auth failed mongoose connection string

Question

I can connect to the DB through terminal, but getting this error using mongoose and gulp. mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb/connection/base.js:246 MongoError: auth

Answer 1

There is many ways to make it work. This is what worked for me [mongoose v5.9.15] :

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/', {
    auth: {
        user:'root',
        password:'example'
    },
    authSource:"admin",
    useUnifiedTopology: true,
    useNewUrlParser: true
}