How to launch mongo database locally?

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I’ve never worked with MongoDB and have no idea how to launch it in Glitch. Can someone give me instructions?

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u mean access it from glitch?
what coding language ur using?

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Yes, and the language is JavaScript

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i use mongoose

const mongoose = require(‘mongoose’)
mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO, {
useNewUrlParser: true,
})

replace porocess.env.MONGO with

“mongodb+srv:// <your username> : <your password> @mayumi-db-gt3cf.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority”
(note that the username and the password are not ur account but the ones from access managment)
(and u need to enable white list IP addresses from everywhere in network access or get every IP adress from glitch and fill them there)
if u need more about it just go watch a youtube video or ask me

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Thank you, I will try this and let you know.

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Hey @Daksh777
Since you’ve never worked with MongoDB, I’d recommend you to watch a few tutorials about MongoDB and basics. I’ve been using MongoDB for quite a time, so here’s are a few things, I’d like to tell you:

You can register an account for MongoDB Atlas for cloud storage. (Watch tutorials on how to create cluster and connection).
You will most likely have issues with whitelisting: You can set the IP address to 0.0.0.0/0 to whitelist all the networks.
You need not use mongoose to work with MongoDB as @ayoubmadrid mentioned.
Once you have received your connection string from the website.

You can go ahead and process further with the example given below:

const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
 
const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017'; // replace this with the connection string, make sure to replace <password> with the database password
const name = 'myproject'; // replace this string with the db name you desire.
 
MongoClient.connect(url, function(err, client) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("Connected successfully to server");
  const db = client.db(name);
  client.close();
});

If you face any trouble, feel free to mention me with the issue.

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Just For Info, As far as I have tried, one cannot access MongoDB at localhost from Glitch.

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Indeed, they cannot. However, you can use MongoDB Atlas for cloud storage.

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MongoDB will not run locally. This is because MongoDB will eat up all of your storage pretty much instantly! Also, MongoDB wouldn’t be able to run as a service as the Glitch containers don’t allow access to sudo.

Hope this helps!

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I’ll try your method and let you know if it works.

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Make sure to change the connection string and follow all the steps properly.
If it doesn’t work or you face any issue, feel free to mention me.

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Sure. As soon as I get back to my PC, I’ll try it :smiley:

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i am confused about what ip adress should i set

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Hi there @shinchan-pb-xi!
If you have set up a MongoDB database on your own PC you can use port forwarding and then connect to your external IP on Glitch. If this is too confusing, I really like MongoDB Atlas which will give you a connection string/url to put in the code
Hope this helps :slight_smile:
Eddie

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Also you can use a database adapter (like Endb) along with the database of your choice and it’ll be even more easier to play with databases.