Script for seeding many Articles in the MEANJS framework. Locally, this script resides in a sub-folder of the /scripts folder that I've added to my global .gitignore. The paths of the dependencies may need to be updated for your purposes.

meanjs-seed-many-articles.js

'use strict';

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
  chalk = require('chalk'),
  config = require('../../config/config'),
  mg = require('../../config/lib/mongoose');

mg.loadModels();

var seedCount = 100000;

var seededArticles = [],
  errors = [],
  processedCount = 0;

mg.connect(function (db) {
  var Article = mongoose.model('Article');

  for (var i = 0; i < seedCount; i++) {
    //console.log('adding #' + (i + 1));
    //console.log('article (before): ', article);

    try {
      var createdAt = new Date(Date.now());
      //console.log('createdAt: ', createdAt);

      var article = new Article({
        created: createdAt,
        title: 'Seeded Article - ' + createdAt.toLocaleDateString(),
        content: 'This is the #' + (i + 1) + ' article that was added with the script',
        user: '5626bdec39b6617808bdf661'
      });

      article.save(saveCallback(article));

    } catch (err) {
      errors.push(err);
      reportUnhandledError(err, seededArticles, errors);
    }
  }
});

function saveCallback(article) {
  return function (err) {
    processedCount++;

    if (err) {
      errors.push(err);
    } else {
      seededArticles.push(article);
    }

    if (processedCount === seedCount) {
      reportAndExit(seededArticles, errors);
    }
  }
}

function reportUnhandledError(err, articles, errors) {
  console.log();
  console.log('An unhandled error occured');
  console.log(err);
  console.log();

  reportAndExit(articles, errors);
}

function reportAndExit(articles, errors) {
  console.log('articles added: ', articles.length);
  console.log('error count: ', errors.length);

  process.exit(0);
}