Node js Mongo db connection

mongo-connection.js

# Credit: https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-connect-to-mongodb-using-a-promise-on-node-js-59dd6c4d44a7
const config = require('config');
const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

var _connection;
var _db;

const closeConnection = () => {
  _connection.close();
}

/**
 * Connects to mongodb using config/config.js
 * @returns Promise<Db> mongo Db instance
 */
const getDbConnection = async () => {
  if (_db) {
    return _db;
  }
  console.log('trying to connect');
  const mongoClient = new MongoClient(config.mongodb.url, { useNewUrlParser: true });
  _connection = await mongoClient.connect();
  _db = _connection.db(config.mongodb.databaseName);
  return _db;
}

module.exports = { getDbConnection, closeConnection };