Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

Creating our collections

Now that we have created a database, let's populate it with some collections by performing the following steps:

1. Run the following to create a collection for Products:

   > db.createCollection('Products')
   

   MongoDB will respond with the following:

   { "ok" : 1 }
   

   The preceding code indicates that the command was executed successfully. Note that the response is returned to us in the JSON format.

2. Let's pause for a minute and break down the preceding command so that we understand what we just did:
   • The db is a JavaScript object that represents the currently selected database. In our case, it is OrderBase.
   • The createCollection('Products') function is one of the many member methods of db. Needless to say, it creates a new collection and ...