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To be honest, a good attempt by the author but I wouldn't recommend this to a beginner. Why? I don't recommend the use of the native driver - you end up with needlessly complex code.

I don't want to criticize the authors work. He's done a pretty good and thorough job. Hopefully I'll pen down an easier guide later tonight.

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Yeah, I'd say many folks will probably end up wanting to use something like Mongoose to abstract the nitty-gritty details of Node/MongoDB interaction, but knowing how to use the underlying library (and node-mongodb-native is the most popular of them by far) is healthy for beginners.

It's always nice to have another point of view within a subject. Would like to know more.

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