Incorporating MongoDB views into Node

Question

In MongoDB v3.4, views were added as a feature. However, I haven't been able to find any resources for how'd I'd use a view I created in a Node.js application. How would I go about doing this, specifically for an aggregation view?

Answer 1

I also found this to be unclear. Confusingly, you need to use db.createCollection, unlike the createView command in the MongoDB shell. For example:

db.createCollection('myView', {
  viewOn: 'myCollection',
  pipeline: [],
});

Where pipeline is an Aggregation Pipeline. You can then access your View in the same way as a collection:

db.collection('myView').find();