I am using the express framework and would like to connect to a mongodb without using mongoose, but with the native nodejs Mongodb driver. How can I do this without creating a new connection every time?
To handle get or post requests I currently open a new connection to the db for every request and close it on completion of the request. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance.
Following the example from my comment, modifying it so that the app handles errors rather than failing to start the server.
var express = require('express');
var mongodb = require('mongodb');
var app = express();
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var db;
// Initialize connection once
MongoClient.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/integration_test", function(err, database) {
if(err) return console.error(err);
db = database;
// the Mongo driver recommends starting the server here because most apps *should* fail to start if they have no DB. If yours is the exception, move the server startup elsewhere.
});
// Reuse database object in request handlers
app.get("/", function(req, res, next) {
db.collection("replicaset_mongo_client_collection").find({}, function(err, docs) {
if(err) return next(err);
docs.each(function(err, doc) {
if(doc) {
console.log(doc);
}
else {
res.end();
}
});
});
});
app.use(function(err, req, res){
// handle error here. For example, logging and returning a friendly error page
});
// Starting the app here will work, but some users will get errors if the db connection process is slow.
app.listen(3000);
console.log("Listening on port 3000");
var mongodb = require('mongodb');
var uri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dbname';
module.exports = function(callback) {
mongodb.MongoClient.connect(uri, callback);
};
Ad this snippet in a file say connect.js and then require this file(connect.js) in your file where you are declaring your functions for http requests.
