What is the best method to seeding a Node / MongoDB application?

Question

So, I\'m new to the MEAN stack, and I\'ve hit a wall trying to seed MongoDB. I\'m using Mongoose to communicate with the database, and there\'s a bunch of documentation suggesti

Answer 1

You can populate MongoDB in the CLI using mongoimport

It will load a JSON file into a specified MongoDB Instance & Collection, all you need is for a mongod instance to be running before executing.

Here is a walkthrough of using mongoimport.