Questions tagged [monk]

Features (taken from monks github page):

• Command buffering. You can start querying right away.
• Promises built-in for all queries. Easy interoperability with modules.
• Easy connections / configuration
• Well-designed signatures
• Improvements to the MongoDB APIs (eg: findAndModify supports the update signature style)
• Auto-casting of _id in queries
• Builds on top of mongoskin
• Allows to set global options or collection-level options for queries. (eg: safe is true by default for all queries)

Connection

var db = require('monk')('localhost/dbname');

To set global multi-doc at db level

db.options.multi = true;

To set global multi-doc at collection level

db.get('users').options.multi = false;  

Close DB connection

db.close(); 

Operations

var collection = db.get('collection');    
collection.insert({ }, function(err) { });
collection.find({ }, function(err, docs) { });
collection.findOne({ }, function(err, doc) { });
collection.update({ }, { }, function(err, docs) { });
collection.findAndModify({ }, { }, function(err, docs) { });
collection.findById('id', function(err, doc) { });
collection.drop(function(err) { });

Index

collection.index('name.first', function() { });
Unique Index
collection.index('email', { unique: true });  
Compound Index
collection.index('name.first name.last')   
Compound with sort
collection.index({ 'email': 1, 'password': -1 }); 
To get indexes for a collection
collection.indexes(fn);
Drop an index
collection.dropIndex(name, fn);
Drop all indexes
collection.dropIndexes(fn);