When to close MongoDB database connection in Nodejs

Question

Working with Nodejs and MongoDB through Node MongoDB native driver. Need to retrieve some documents, and make modification, then save them right back. This is an example:

Answer 1

Based on the suggestion from @mpobrien above, I've found the async module to be incredibly helpful in this regard. Here's an example pattern that I've come to adopt:

const assert = require('assert');
const async = require('async');
const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

var mongodb;

async.series(
    [
        // Establish Covalent Analytics MongoDB connection
        (callback) => {
            MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/test', (err, db) => {
                assert.equal(err, null);
                mongodb = db;
                callback(null);
            });
        },
        // Insert some documents
        (callback) => {
            mongodb.collection('sandbox').insertMany(
                [{a : 1}, {a : 2}, {a : 3}],
                (err) => {
                    assert.equal(err, null);
                    callback(null);
                }
            )
        },
        // Find some documents
        (callback) => {
            mongodb.collection('sandbox').find({}).toArray(function(err, docs) {
                assert.equal(err, null);
                console.dir(docs);
                callback(null);
            });
        }
    ],
    () => {
        mongodb.close();
    }
);