MongoDB get the number of documents (count) in a collection using Node.js

Question

I\'m currently writing a function that should return the number of documents from a collection the thing is that when i\'m returning the value it says undefined, Here is my

Answer 1

Here is how it should look like

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

var dbName = "ystocks";
var port = "27017";
var host = "localhost";

function getNumOfDocs (collectionName, host, port, dbName, callback) {
    MongoClient.connect("mongodb://" + host + ":" + port + "/" + dbName, function (error, db){
        if(error) return callback(error);

        db.collection(collectionName).count({}, function(error, numOfDocs){
            if(error) return callback(error);

            db.close();
            callback(null, numOfDocs);
        });
    }); 
} 

And usage

getNumOfDocs("stocks", host, port, dbName, function(err, count) {
   if (err) {
       return console.log(err.message);
   }
   console.log('number of documents', count);
});

Keep in mind if you are going to call this function lots of times, it is better to just connect to the database once and then use the same connection.