!CHAPTER Documents

This is an introduction to ArangoDB's interface for working with
documents from the JavaScript shell *arangosh* or in JavaScript code in
the server. For other languages see the corresponding language API.

We begin with a

  - [section on the basic approach](DocumentAddress.md)

before we proceed with

  - [the detailed API description for collection objects](DocumentMethods.md)

and then

  - [the detailed API description for database objects](DatabaseMethods.md)