bclinkinbeard

Populating referenced collections in MongoDB from JSON files using Node.js and Mongoose

I recently began working with Node and MongoDB for a small personal project, largely just to learn the technologies. One thing that is fairly simple but that I found far from obvious and lacking in concrete examples was how to populate the part of my database that used referenced collections from the sample JSON data I was starting with. This post attempts to fill that gap using the following code snippets, which are heavily commented inline. You will notice I am using the awesome Mongoose library which makes working with MongoDB very easy.

http.createServer( app ).listen( app.get( 'port' ), function() {

    mongoose.connect( 'mongodb://localhost/{YOUR_DB_NAME}' );

	var db = mongoose.connection;

paolorossi

/*
 * Inspired by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4360060/video-streaming-with-html-5-via-node-js
 */

var http = require('http'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    util = require('util');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  var path = 'video.mp4';