login/signup function with no sessions

src/database/connection.js

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+const MongoClient = require("mongodb").MongoClient;
+
+/**
+ * connectMongo returns a database connection to MongoDB
+ * @param {string} mongoURI 
+ * @param {string} databaseName 
+ */
+const connectMongo = async (mongoURI, databaseName) => {
+    const database = await MongoClient.connect(mongoURI, { connectTimeoutMS: 1000 });
+    const dbo = database.db(databaseName);
+    return dbo;
+}
+
+/**
+ * getCollection object to interact with MongoDB
+ * @param {MongoClient} dbo
+ * @param {string} collection 
+ */
+const getCollection = async (dbo, collection) => {
+    return await dbo.collection(collection);
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    connectMongo: connectMongo,
+    getCollection: getCollection,
+}