Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Adding Documents to a Collection

Typically, you insert documents in a collection through your Node.js application. However, there may be times when you need to manually insert a document from an administrative point of view to preload a database, fix a database, or for testing purposes.

To add documents to a collection, you need to get the collection object and then call the insert(document) or save(document) method on that object. The document parameter is a well-formatted JavaScript object that is converted to BSON and stored in the collection. For example, the following commands create three new documents inside a collection, as shown in Figure 12.10:

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use testDBcoll = db.getCollection("newCollection")coll.find() ...