DB commands: db.getCollection('donationplaces').createIndex( {location:'2dsphere'} )

Environemnt: The code has been tested on a Windows 10 x64 machine. No guarantees that the development environment would work in other operating systems; hopefully it doees

Currentyly we are using development environment. Note that in production environment, we should turn off console logs by changing NODE_ENV_ENVIRONMENT to be 'production'

Security: Currently the database name, username, and password are hard-coded but ideally secure data should be saved as environment variables.