This is a basic configuration of a rest server where you can create, read, update and delete users from a mongodb
Use npm install or npm i to install all the dependencies
Use npm run dev to run the server in development mode
To connect to a database you need to rename the file .env.template to .env and replace the value of the MONGODB_URI with a conncection string that looks like:
mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@beyondthebasics.abcde.mongodb.net/test
To know more about this yo can visit MongoDB Connection String the info you need is the section How to get your MongoDB Atlas connection string