From blog post, Retrieving Data with AngularJS and the MEAN Stack: http://wp.me/p1RD28-16F. Install the sample database, collection, and documents.

meanstack-test-mongodb.sh

start mongod # starts mongod in a separate window
mongo # starts interactive MongoDB Shell for remaining commands

# tip: once the mongo shell has started, you can copy and paste 
# the commands below into the shell, all at once
use meanstack-test // creates database if it does not exist
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongod", 
    "description": "core database process" })
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongos", 
    "description": "controller and query router for sharded clusters" })
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongo", 
    "description": "interactive MongoDB Shell" })
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongodump", 
    "description": "utility for creating binary export of database contents" })
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongorestore",
    "description": "writes data from a binary database dump to a MongoDB instance" })
db.components.insert({ "component": "mongooplog", 
 "description": "polls operations from the replication oplog" })

show collections // verifies the components collection was created
db.components.find().pretty() // verifies documents were created