Step 3

Now that we have a MongoDB server running locally, let's play with it!

Notice

We are on the local machine, on a local server so no authentication is needed but you couldn't access the server from another machine

We can use the CLI to do actions in MongoDB:

mongo

We are going to run some basic commands.

List all databases (default ones):

show dbs

Switch to a specific database (will be created automatically):

use demo

Create a first entry:

db.examples.insert({'title': 'MongoDB rocks!', url: 'https://www.mongodb.com'})

List all collections (you'll see the one automatically created):

show collections

Look at the data we just inserted (see the automated _id field):

db.examples.find()