Storing and retrieving data with Mongoskin

Mongoskin is a convenience library providing a high-level interface for mongodb without blocking access to the existing mongodb methods.

For this recipe, we'll re-implement the quotes database in MongoDB using Mongoskin.

Getting ready

We'll need the mongoskin module.

npm install mongoskin

We can also create a new folder, with a new quotes.js file.

How to do it...

We'll require mongoskin and use it to make a client and a collection instance. We don't need to create a server instance, nor manually open the client as in the former recipe, mongoskin takes care of that.

var mongo = require('mongoskin');
var client = mongo.db('localhost:27017/quotes');
var collection = client.collection('quotes');
var params = {author: process.argv[2], quote: process.argv[3]};

As in the previous recipe, we've defined our params object for user input.

Instead of requiring us to use JavaScript's potentially human error prone new keyword, mongoskin provides a builder method (mongo...