Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Adding the MongoDB Driver to Node.js

The first step in implementing MongoDB access from your Node.js applications is to add the MongoDB driver to your application project. The MongoDB Node.js driver is the officially supported native Node.js driver for MongoDB. It has by far the best implementation and is sponsored by MongoDB.

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This book can’t cover everything about the driver. For additional information, I recommend looking at the documentation for the MongoDB Node.js driver at http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/.

Thanks to the Node.js modular framework, adding the MongoDB Node.js driver to a project requires just a simple npm command. From your project root directory, execute the following commands at a console prompt to install ...