lgzhang/mongocms

MongoDB GUI Tool

Synopsis

MongoCMS is just a very simple content editor for MongoDB collections. It makes manging rich content types very simple, clean and elegant.

Motivation

My primary motivation for building this tool was my personal blog (www.josebrowne.com). My process for updating HTML content was very painful (encode, decode, encode, decode..etc). Manually adding dates was also surprisingly tricky (ex ISODate("2011-04-24T09:00:00.000Z"). I tried EVERY tool out there and none solved this problem for me. I had two weeks off so I decided to give it a shot.

Features

• Connect to local and Remote collections
• Inline editing
• Create/Delete documents
• Create/Update/Edit or Delete data
• Support for nested fields
• Easy breadcrumbs navigation for nested data
• Inline HTMl editing (with ace)
• Easy date inputs (using HTML5 datetime input type)

More features coming soon..

Getting Started

Download

Connect

You can connect to bot local (mongod) instances as well as remote databases. For local connections the only required fields are HOST and database. Once connected select your collection from the list and you're good to go.

Editing Changes

MongoCMS currently supports full CRUD operations on Collections and Documents. Simply select or create a document in document list on left then begin making in-line edits. To save changes simple blur (click outside of inputs).

Special keys

The UI will optionally recognize and display certain root keys if they exist

• created: will display relative time in collection list
• views: will display view count in collection list
• title: will use this instead of id string in collection list titles

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Full Screen Ace Editor: CMD + Shift + F

TODO next

• Create connection manager (right now just stores last credentials in localStorage)
• Implement AMD (ex. require.js)
• Infinite Scroll for Document list
• Add "create collection" feature to connect dialog
• Edit keys
• Add config options

The HTML5 stack makes it very easy for many developers to contribute so if you have any other suggestions feel free to create a feature request.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Jose Browne <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.