Node.js, MongoDB and Angular Web Development, 2nd Edition

14Manipulating MongoDB Documents from Node.js

In Chapter 13, “Getting Started with MongoDB and Node.js,” you learned the fundamentals of using the MongoDB Node.js driver to manage and manipulate databases and collections. This chapter expands on those concepts to include manipulation of documents within collections. The MongoDB Node.js driver provides a lot of functionality in the Collection class, described in Chapter 13, that allows you to insert, access, modify, and remove documents from collections.

This chapter is broken down into sections that describe the basic document management tasks that you perform on collections, including inserts and deletes. This chapter introduces you to the options that control the behavior of write requests ...