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Initializing MongoDB collections 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;

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<label class="item item-input" ng-if="vm.website === undefined || !vm.api && !vm.account">
  <input id="website" name="website" type="url" placeholder="What is your choir/chorus website?"
  ng-model="vm.website" required http-prefix>

var app = angular.module('APPNAME');

app.directive('httpPrefix', function() {
    return {