lehmeyer/mongo-gui

A web-based MongoDB graphical user interface

Mongo GUI

A web-based MongoDB graphical user interface.

Demo

Read-only demo: https://mongo-gui.herokuapp.com/

Mongo GUI Features

• Connect to local/remote mongodb instances
• View/add/delete databases
• View/add/delete collections
• View/add/update/delete/copy documents
• Multi tab support
• Query documents
• Advanced pagination
• Supports all BSON types in documents
• Rich user interface
• Import CSV or JSON files
• Export collection to CSV or JSON files

How to install and run MongoDB GUI

The following are the different ways to install mongo-gui.

From npm:

• Install the module globally using the command npm install -g mongo-gui
• Then use the command mongo-gui to run the application

From github:

• First of all, clone the mongo-gui repository using the command git clone https://github.com/arunbandari/mongo-gui or download the zip file from here.
• Change the directory to mongo-gui cd mongo-gui
• Install all the dependencies npm install
• Start the application using either npm start or node server.js command

Note: Node.js must be installed on your machine to run this application

From Docker Hub:

Docker compose

version: '3'

services:
  mongo-gui:
    container_name: "mongo-gui"
    image: ugleiton/mongo-gui
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "4321:4321"
    environment:
      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017

Mongo GUI Usage

The commands mongo-gui and npm start or node server.js start the application with the following configuaration:

• URL (-u): mongodb://localhost:27017

• PORT (-p): 4321

  and the application will be accesible at http://localhost:4321

To connect to any other mongodb instance, pass mongo connection string as an argument, eg:

• Installed via npm: mongo-gui -u mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@host/<dbnames>?retryWrites=true&w=majority'

• Installed via github: (npm start --/node server.js) -u mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@host/<dbnames>?retryWrites=true&w=majority'

Available options:

• -u: url, mongo-gui tries to connect to this mongodb instance
• -p: port, mongo-gui listens on this port

Screenshots

Controls:

License

MIT