MongoDB Go Driver Examples

• MongoDB Go Driver Examples
  • Overview
  • Requirements
  • MongoDB Container
    • Run Docker MongoDB Container
    • Shutdown the Docker Container
  • VSCode MongoDB Extension
    • Running the Sample Go Scripts
  • Appendix
    • Connect with Mongosh

Overview

The purose of this repo is for me to learn how to use the MongoDB Go Driver and collate useful examples.

Requirements

Tool	Description
Docker	This is used to launch the MongoDB container
mongosh	The MongoDB Shell
MongoDB for VS Code	This is used to create a playground for MongoDB

MongoDB Container

For the purpose of a development environment, I'm using the mongo:latest image to launch a local development environment.

Run Docker MongoDB Container

docker-compose up -d
docker ps
docker volume ls

Shutdown the Docker Container

# Shutdown without deleting all containers
docker-compose stop
# Shutdown with deleting all containers
docker-compose down

VSCode MongoDB Extension

Please see the VSCode MongoDB extension documentation to see how to connect via the extension.

The connection string is mongodb://root:[email protected]/

Below is an example of what the connected database will look like via the extension:

Running the Sample Go Scripts

To tun the scripts, run the following command:

go run cmd/cli/main.go

You'll be prompted asking if you want to populate the DB with sample data. This only need to be done on the first run. You can see an example of this below:

Appendix

Connect with Mongosh

mongosh admin -u root -p rootpassword