Get the _id of inserted document in Mongo database in NodeJS

Question

I use NodeJS to insert documents in MongoDB. Using collection.insert I can insert a document into database like in this code:

// ...
collection.         


        

Answer 1

As ktretyak said, to get inserted document's ID best way is to use insertedId property on result object. In my case result._id didn't work so I had to use following:

db.collection("collection-name")
  .insertOne(document)
  .then(result => {
    console.log(result.insertedId);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    // handle error
  });

It's the same thing if you use callbacks.