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

Add the new url parser as an option { useNewUrlParser: true }

Change you line 3 to:

mongoose.connect(configDB.url, { useMongoClient: true, useNewUrlParser: true } );