quickstart.js

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'use strict';

// [START datastore_quickstart]
// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const Datastore = require('@google-cloud/datastore');

// Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

// Instantiates a client
const datastore = Datastore({
  projectId: projectId
});

// The kind for the new entity
const kind = 'Task';
// The name/ID for the new entity
const name = 'sampletask1';
// The Cloud Datastore key for the new entity
const taskKey = datastore.key([kind, name]);

// Prepares the new entity
const task = {
  key: taskKey,
  data: {
    description: 'Buy milk'
  }
};

// Saves the entity
datastore.save(task)
  .then(() => {
    console.log(`Saved ${task.key.name}: ${task.data.description}`);
  });
// [END datastore_quickstart]