Developers often build a to-do app to learn a new database because it's a simple and straightforward project that can be used to demonstrate the basic functionality of the database.

In this guide you will build a ToDo app and learn the following Fauna core concepts.

• Fauna Dashboard
• Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) in Fauna
• Query patterns
• Database relationships

Head over to dashboard.fauna.com. Select the Create Database button to create a new database.

Give your database a name. Select a region group and select Create.

Once the database is created, you get redirected to the database page.

On the left-hand side, you have the available resources such as collections, indexes and functions listed for this database. On the right-hand side, you have a web shell (Fauna web shell) where you can execute Fauna queries.

Creating Collections

Create a new collection by selecting the + sign on the Collections option.

Name your collection Todo and select Create.