From 33cec6b6f25463dac36e9fc8ca452383a9f1ba39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: classicmatsuo <classic.matsuo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 04:53:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: updated instructions for install-and-set-up-mongoose
 (#37908)

Co-Authored-By: Randell Dawson <5313213+RandellDawson@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Matsuo <kmatsuo@ARDs-MacBook-Pro-2.local>
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 .../mongodb-and-mongoose/install-and-set-up-mongoose.english.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/install-and-set-up-mongoose.english.md b/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/install-and-set-up-mongoose.english.md
index 77a6903a1e..5a996cca25 100644
--- a/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/install-and-set-up-mongoose.english.md
+++ b/curriculum/challenges/english/05-apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/install-and-set-up-mongoose.english.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ forumTopicId: 301540
 
 ## Description
 <section id='description'>
-Add mongodb and mongoose to the project’s package.json. Then require mongoose. Store your MongoDB Atlas database URI in the private <code>.env</code> file as MONGO_URI. Connect to the database using the following syntax:
+Add mongodb and mongoose to the project’s package.json. Then require mongoose. Store your MongoDB Atlas database URI in the private <code>.env</code> file as MONGO_URI. Surround the the URI with single or double quotes and make sure no space exists between both the variable and the `=` and the value and `=`. Connect to the database using the following syntax:
 
 ```js
 mongoose.connect(<Your URI>, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });