MongoDB insert into collection through CLI

Question

I have a mongodb running on my development machine. I need to insert some documents into few collections before deploying the web app.

As in documentation, I use this code to create collection and to insert documents into it.

db.createCollection("usersTypes");
db.collection.insertMany({[
       { "_id":"1", "title":"Basic" },
       { "_id":"2", "title":"Premium" }
    ]},
    {
        writeConcern: "usersTypes",
        ordered: false
    });

To run the JS file that contains the insert statements I use this code on the command line: mongo mydb statements.js

But I receive error Syntax Error: missing ] in computed property name

How should I fix my insert script so that I can populate mongo db collections with data?

Answer 1

try

> db.userTypes.insertMany([{ "_id":"1", "title":"Basic"},{ "_id":"2", "title":"Premium" }]);
{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedIds" : [ "1", "2" ] }

you can specify the collection name after db .

you don't need curly braces around the first argument (just an array of documents is fine).

write concern specifies how thoroughly (and slowly) writes are acknowledged