What is @types/mongodb?
@types/mongodb provides TypeScript definitions for the MongoDB Node.js driver, allowing developers to use MongoDB with type safety and autocompletion in TypeScript projects.
What are @types/mongodb's main functionalities?
Connecting to MongoDB
This feature allows you to connect to a MongoDB database using the MongoClient class. The code sample demonstrates how to establish a connection and handle it properly.
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
const uri = 'your_mongodb_uri';
const client = new MongoClient(uri, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });
async function run() {
try {
await client.connect();
console.log('Connected to MongoDB');
} finally {
await client.close();
}
}
run().catch(console.dir);
CRUD Operations
This feature allows you to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on a MongoDB collection. The code sample demonstrates how to insert, find, update, and delete documents.
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
const uri = 'your_mongodb_uri';
const client = new MongoClient(uri, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });
async function run() {
try {
await client.connect();
const database = client.db('sample_db');
const collection = database.collection('sample_collection');
// Create
const doc = { name: 'Alice', age: 25 };
const result = await collection.insertOne(doc);
console.log(`New document created with the following id: ${result.insertedId}`);
// Read
const query = { name: 'Alice' };
const user = await collection.findOne(query);
console.log(user);
// Update
const updateDoc = { $set: { age: 26 } };
const updateResult = await collection.updateOne(query, updateDoc);
console.log(`Matched ${updateResult.matchedCount} document and modified ${updateResult.modifiedCount} document`);
// Delete
const deleteResult = await collection.deleteOne(query);
console.log(`Deleted ${deleteResult.deletedCount} document`);
} finally {
await client.close();
}
}
run().catch(console.dir);
Indexing
This feature allows you to create indexes on collections to improve query performance. The code sample demonstrates how to create an index on the 'name' field of a collection.
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
const uri = 'your_mongodb_uri';
const client = new MongoClient(uri, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true });
async function run() {
try {
await client.connect();
const database = client.db('sample_db');
const collection = database.collection('sample_collection');
// Create an index on the 'name' field
const indexName = await collection.createIndex({ name: 1 });
console.log(`Index created: ${indexName}`);
} finally {
await client.close();
}
}
run().catch(console.dir);
Other packages similar to @types/mongodb
mongoose
Mongoose is an Object Data Modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node.js. It provides a higher-level abstraction over the MongoDB driver, including schema validation, middleware, and more. Unlike @types/mongodb, which provides type definitions, Mongoose offers a more opinionated and feature-rich approach to interacting with MongoDB.
mongodb
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typegoose
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Installation
npm install --save @types/mongodb
Summary
This package contains type definitions for MongoDB (https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native).
Details
Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/mongodb.
Additional Details
Credits
These definitions were written by Federico Caselli, Alan Marcell, Gaurav Lahoti, Mariano Cortesi, Enrico Picci, Alexander Christie, Julien Chaumond, Dan Aprahamian, Denys Bushulyak, Bastien Arata, Wan Bachtiar, Geraldine Lemeur, Dominik Heigl, Angela-1, Hector Ribes, Florian Richter, Erik Christensen, Nick Zahn, Jarom Loveridge, Luis Pais, Hossein Saniei, Alberto Silva, Piotr Błażejewicz, Linus Unnebäck, Richard Bateman, Igor Strebezhev, Valentin Agachi, HitkoDev, TJT, Julien TASSIN, Anna Henningsen, and Emmanuel Gautier.