Stream from a mongodb cursor to Express response in node.js

Question

I am toying around with all the fancy node.js/mongodb/express platforms, and stumbled across a problem:

app.get(\'/tag/:tag\', function(req, res){
  var tag=         


        

Answer 1

A working combination of other answers here

app.get('/comments', (req, res) => {
  Comment.find()
    .cursor()
    .pipe(JSONStream.stringify())
    .pipe(res.type('json'))
})

http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#query_Query-cursor

• cursor() returns a Node streams3 compatible stream and is preferred over the deprecated query.stream() interface.
• Piping to JSONStream.stringify() to combine documents into an array instead of single objects
• Piping to res.type('json') which sets the HTTP Content-Type header to application/json and returns itself (the response stream) again.