Please update docs for createConnection

Mongoose was hanging on every single request to my database. After too many hours of frustration, it turns out that the answer at Stackoverflow clarifies what the docs don’t.

I was using createConnection when I should have used connect.

There are many more questions around with exactly the same problem. I only wish that:

• the docs were clear about this
• there was some sort of error when connect/createConnection are not used appropriately. Mongoose doesn’t throw error, doesn’t say anything. It just HANGS! I’ve tried with promises, callbacks and everything else I know with the frustration of knowing there was something with Mongoose I couldn’t debug

[cortopy]

@Jeff-Lewis My config is pretty basic.

To connect now:

mongoose.connect(connectionString)
  .then(() => logger.info("Successfully connected to MongoDB. Starting web server..."))
  .catch(err => logger.error("Unable to connect to MongoDB: ", err))
  .then(() => server.start())
  .then(() => logger.info("Successfully started web server. Waiting for incoming connections..."))
  .catch((err) => logger.error(err));

And the model

mongoose.Promise = require("bluebird");

[vkarpov15]

Please clarify what you mean by “not working”