Properly close mongoose's connection once you're done

Question

I\'m using mongoose in a script that is not meant to run continuously, and I\'m facing what seems to be a very simple issue yet I can\'t find an answer; simply put once I ma

Answer 1

I'm using version 4.4.2 and none of the other answers worked for me. But adding useMongoClient to the options and putting it into a variable that you call close on seemed to work.

var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/somedb', { useMongoClient: true })

//do stuff

db.close()