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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

The basics of MongoDB

Since MongoDB is largely powered by JavaScript, the mongo shell acts as a JavaScript environment. In addition to being able to execute regular Mongo queries, you can also execute standard JavaScript statements. Most of the items mentioned earlier in the JavaScript primer apply directly to the mongo shell as well.

In this next section, we will focus primarily on the various ways to perform standard create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations via the mongo shell.

The mongo shell

To access the mongo shell, simply execute mongo from any terminal. The mongo shell requires the mongod server to be currently running and available on the machine as the first thing it does is connect to the server:

$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.5
connecting to: test
>

By default, when you first launch Mongo, you are connected to the local server and set to use the test database. To display a list of all databases on the server, use the following command:

> show dbs

To switch databases...

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