mongodb-prebuilt
Install mongodb prebuilt binaries using npm. This module helps you easily install the mongodb without having to compile anything.
MongoDB is an open-source, document database designed for ease of development and scaling.
Installation
Download and install the latest build of mongodb for your OS and add it to your projects package.json as a dependency:
npm install mongodb-prebuilt
--global to make MongoDB binaries accessible without additional configurations.
npm install -g mongodb-prebuilt
If that command fails with an EACCESS error you may have to run it again with sudo:
sudo npm install -g mongodb-prebuilt
Now you can just run mongod to run mongodb:
mongod
Complete list of programs:
- bsondump
- mongo
- mongod
- mongodump
- mongoexport
- mongofiles
- mongoimport
- mongooplog
- mongoperf
- mongorestore
- mongos
- mongosniff
- mongostat
- mongotop
About
Works on Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris OSes that MongoDB supports.
Programmatic usage
let {MongodHelper} = require('mongodb-prebuilt');
let mongodHelper = new MongodHelper(['--port', "27018"]);
mongodHelper.run().then((started) => {
console.log('mongod is running');
}, (e) => {
console.log('error starting', e);
});