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Benny Tjia
Benny Tjia

Reputation: 4883

NodeJS + MongoDB - Starting mongodb server instance installed from npm

I'm running node.js on OSX and have just installed mongodb using command npm install mongodb under myapp/node_modules directory. According to mongodb official documenation, to start a mongodb you just have to execute ./mongodb/bin/mongo on the command line. However I didn't see any directory called 'bin' under the node_modules/mongodb..

Is there a special way to start a mongodb instance when it were bundled together with a node.js app? How would I start a mongodb server running on mongodb://localhost/myapp?

I'm currently also using matador (new mvc framework for node), and according to the documentation, we connect to the mongodb server this way:

// app/models/ApplicationModel.js
module.exports = require('./BaseModel').extend(function () {
  this.mongo = require('mongodb') 
  this.mongoose = require('mongoose')
  this.Schema = this.mongoose.Schema
  this.mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/myapp') //CONNECT TO MONGODB SERVER...
})

At this moment I dont think I have mongodb server running, and don't really know how to set it up because of the issue above. Would appreciate any links, answers, and pointers to the right direction. Thanks!

Upvotes: 10

Views: 14374

Answers (2)

Sergio Tulentsev
Sergio Tulentsev

Reputation: 230276

npm install mongodb is the command for installing Node.js driver for MongoDB. You'll have to install MongoDB server separately.

You can get it here: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Upvotes: 16

AbhishekTripathi
AbhishekTripathi

Reputation: 71

With NPM you got the mongo driver and not the mongodb. I use Chocolatey to install softwares on my computer. To install mongodb without leaving console, you may use following command if you have chocolatey installed.

cinst mongodb

Upvotes: 1

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