Use node to download mongodb rather than execSync() + curl

[vkarpov15]

Use node to download mongodb rather than execSync() + curl

[ucejtech]

Node.js fs module could do this, would that be a better implementation?

[vkarpov15]

Yes definitely. We haven’t gotten around to this yet, ran into some roadblocks so we just used curl

[ucejtech]

Would you hint at what roadblocks to look out for, I would be trying to fix this issue .

[vkarpov15]

I think I mostly struggled with figuring out how to get something from nodes http request that I could pipe into an fs write stream. Since then I wrote a tutorial about making http requests with node, so this may be helpful: https://masteringjs.io/tutorials/node/http-request