mongoose creating null document after using module export in express - node.js

Question

I was recently using a function to upload files to a mongodb database successfully. However after moving those functions into a file (to clean up) and exporting that file then requiring it in my route, the database now creates documents with only null values like so:
_id:ObjectId("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
name:null,
value:null,
image:null,
desc:null
I don't know what might be causing this, I am logging the argument object that i'm trying to insert from inside the function 'insertProducts' and the item.name is not null. Sorry I'm new to mongodb :/
maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
CRUD.js
const mongodb = require('mongodb');
const MongoClient = mongodb.MongoClient;
const removeProducts = function(req,res){
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost', (err, client) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
let db = client.db('account-app');
let products = db.collection('products');
let users = db.collection('users');
try{
products.remove({ _id: req.body.id }, function(err) {
if (!err) {
console.log('removed item')
}
});
}
catch(err){
console.log('Error while inserting', err)
}
client.close()
res.redirect('/addItems')
})
}
const insertProducts = function(item,res){
console.log("item name",item.name)
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost', (err, client) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
let db = client.db('account-app');
let products = db.collection('products');
try{
products.insertOne(item)
console.log('item inserted')
}
catch(err){
console.log('Error while inserting', err)
}
client.close()
res.redirect('/admin/addItems')
})
}
module.exports={removeProducts: removeProducts, insertProducts: insertProducts}
my admin route that requires the crud functions
const crudOps = require('../utils/admin/CRUD') //require CRUD functions
// Adding new items
// --------------------------------------------------
router.post('/addNewItems', (req, res, next) => {
console.log(req.body.name)
let item = {
name:req.body.name,
file: binary(req.files.image.data),
value: req.body.value,
desc: req.body.desc
}
crudOps.insertProducts(item, res)
});

Answer 1

That connection URL looks wrong. Generally, it has the format:
mongodb://localhost:27017/mydatabase
Try replacing the connection string with the appropriate one for your database and see if that works. Also, the docs normally have insertOne statements like this so maybe that is the issue?
products.insertOne(item, function(err, r) {
console.log('item inserted')
res.redirect('/admin/addItems')
db.close();
});