Error connecting to Azure: Illegal character in password with mongoose 5.0.1 but works in 4.13.9

Question

I have a node.js application that is deployed to azure using CosmosDB and the MongoDB API. My application uses mongoose which works seamlessly in 4.13.9.

My application

Answer 1

For the latest version (v5.0.1) of Mongoose, you'll need to use this syntax to connect to MongoDB like this:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

mongoose.connect('mongodb://.documents.azure.com:10255/?ssl=true', {
    auth: {
      user: '',
      password: ''
    }
  })
  .then(() => console.log('connection successful'))
  .catch((err) => console.error(err));