note: monk 2.x drop the support for node < 0.12. If you are still using an earlier version, stick to monk 1.x

const db = require('monk')('localhost/mydb')
// or
// const db = require('monk')('user:pass@localhost:port/mydb')

const users = db.get('users')

users.index('name last')
users.insert({ name: 'Tobi', bigdata: {} })
users.find({ name: 'Loki' }, '-bigdata').then(function () {
  // exclude bigdata field
})
users.find({}, {sort: {name: 1}}).then(function () {
  // sorted by name field
})
users.remove({ name: 'Loki' })

db.close()

• Well-designed API signatures
• Easy connections / configuration
• Command buffering. You can start querying right away
• Promises built-in for all queries. Easy interoperability with modules
• Auto-casting of _id in queries
• Allows to set global options or collection-level options for queries. (eg: castIds is true by default for all queries)

Most of the Monk's features are implemented as middleware.

There are a bunch of third-parties middlewares that add even more functionalities to Monk:

• monk-middleware-wrap-non-dollar-update
• monk-middleware-debug
• monk-middleware-dereference

Created an nice middleware? Send a PR to add to the list!

Documentation

MIT