TypeError: db.collection is not a function

Question

I am trying to post data to database that I have created on mLab and I am getting this error but I don\'t know whats going wrong.I also have read previously asked question o

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue. It looks like the mongodb driver module for node was updated since the video was created. I found the code below in the docs which works.

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

var url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/';
MongoClient.connect(url, (err, db) => {
   db.collection('').find({}).toArray(function(err, docs) {

    // Print the documents returned
    docs.forEach(function(doc) {
        console.log(doc);
    });

    // Close the DB
    db.close();
    });

});  

is replaced with

 var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

  var url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017'; // remove the db name.
    MongoClient.connect(url, (err, client) => {
       var db = client.db(dbName);
       db.collection('').find({}).toArray(function(err, docs) {

        // Print the documents returned
        docs.forEach(function(doc) {
            console.log(doc);
        });

        // Close the DB
        client.close();
        });

    });  

Here is a link to the latest docs in case we run into further syntax issues.