Following this complete guide at MERN Stack
This tutorial will show you how to build a full-stack MERN application—in this case, an employee database—with the most current tools available. Before you begin, make sure that you are familiar with Node.js and React.js basics and have Node and Create React App installed. You will also need access to the MongoDB Atlas database for this tutorial. The full code is available on this GitHub repo.
Disclaimer: This tutorial works with versions until MongoDB Node.js version 4.16.0.