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On friday we went through and talked about the remote url. and we used a credentials file instead of loading it from a .env

I'm suggesting adding back an example file and documentation in the mongoConnect.js file to show the students the different ways of getting the credentials and keeping it out of github

@thedamian thedamian requested a review from jonathans199 August 9, 2022 13:32
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