MongoClient must be connected to perform this operation

After deploying my site, I kept getting this error and have spent the past couple days trying to figure it out.

The error appeared after I would go to a product’s show page and try to load the reviews.

Stackoverlow answered differed, and I could only check the answer with a deploy app as the problem was not arriving in localhost:3000.

It appears when the api call made to myapp.com/api/products/[id]/reviews, it was unable to GET the information.

This what my api call looked like

Everything appeared to be fine. Some answers to this problem suggested that the problem was actually in my ref when making a Model.schema with MongoDB. But, after reading around….ahhh finally the right answer.

The problem was that connect is async. The app wasn’t finished connecting to the db, and it was running other steps.

The answer to the problem lied in simply adding await before the line db.connect()

Also, here is what my connect function looks like.

And final code with await added

Now we make sure we connect to the db first, then we are able to search the products, and find the reviews for that product.

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