Mongoose Quick Start for Mint 18.1 Serena
The Tutorial shows you How to Install and Getting-Started with Mongoose for MongoDB on Mint 18.1 Serena LTS GNU/Linux.
Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to modeling your application data and includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box.

Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
How to Install the Latest Node.js on Mint Linux
Installing Mongoose by Npm:
npm install mongoose
Or otherwise:
sudo npm install mongoose
Getting-Started with Mongoose First, Steps