Connecting to a MongoDB Atlas cluster with an application

- Welcome back team. In this video, you'll learn about MongoDB drivers. You'll also learn where to find the documentation you need to use the drivers. MongoDB drivers allow an application to connect to the database using the programming language of your choice. Our driver uses a connection stream to connect to our cluster. For a list of languages supported by MongoDB, you can go to mongodb.com/docs/drivers. MongoDB supports a wide variety of the most popular languages in use today including C#, Java, Python, and JavaScript, as well as others. If you don't see the language that you're working in, you can also check out our community supported libraries in the link at the bottom of the page. Now, let's explore the resources available for specific drivers. We'll use Node.js as an example. Go ahead and click on the Node.js tab. The MongoDB documentation has the necessary resources for every language driver that it supports. This includes a Quick Start section, Quick References, which contain syntax for common commands, Usage Examples, and Fundamentals. Let's explore the Usage Examples tab. Under this tab, we can find information on how to connect a Node.js application to a MongoDB database. Further down the page, you can find examples that can help you to get started with the programming language of your choice. For those of you that learn best by doing, you'll definitely want to check out the MongoDB Developer Center. You can get to this page by going to mongodb.com/developer. The developer center has in-depth tutorials and full applications available for major programming languages. Additionally, MongoDB University offers courses for learning your languages specific MongoDB driver. These courses take a hands-on learning approach with interactive labs and quizzes. Let's recap what we learned in this video. MongoDB drivers connect an application to our database by using the programming language of our choice. We can find information on using drivers in the documentation as well as the MongoDB Developer Center and courses offered through MongoDB University.