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In this guide, you can learn how to create BSON documents, read BSON from a file, and write BSON to a file by using Node.js driver.

BSON, or Binary JSON, is the data format that MongoDB uses to organize and store data. This data format includes all JSON data structure types and adds support for types including dates, different size integers, ObjectIds, and binary data.

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