connect()

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Description

connect(url, user, password)

Creates a connection to a MongoDB instance and returns the reference to the database. However, in most cases, use the Mongo() object and its getDB() method instead.

Parameter	Type	Description
`url`	string	Specifies the connection string. You can specify either: `<hostname>:<port>/<database>` `<hostname>/<database>` `<database>`
`user`	string	Optional. Specifies an existing username with access privileges for this database. If `user` is specified, you must include the `password` parameter as well.
`password`	string	Optional unless the `user` parameter is specified. Specifies the password for the `user`.

Example

The following example instantiates a new connection to the MongoDB instance running on the localhost interface and returns a reference to myDatabase:

db = connect("localhost:27017/myDatabase")