Installing a GUI-based client, MongoVUE, for MongoDB
In this recipe, we will look at a GUI-based client for MongoDB. Throughout the book, we have used the mongo shell to perform various operations that we need. Its advantages are as follows:
It comes packaged with the MongoDB installation
Being lightweight, you don't need to worry about it taking up your system's resources
On servers where GUI-based interfaces are not present, shell is the only option to connect, query, and administer the server instance
Having said this, if you are not on a server and want to connect to a database instance to query, view the plan of a query, administer, and so on, it is nice to have a GUI with these features to let you do things in the click of a button. As a developer, we always query our relational database with a GUI-based thick client, so why not for MongoDB?
In this recipe, we will see how to install some features of a MongoDB client, MongoVUE. This client is available only for Windows machines. This product...
