Mongo Memory

Bootstrap programmatically Mongodb for testing or mocking during development.

Works on all platforms which is due to the awesome mongodb-prebuilt package.

Installation

npm install mongo-memory

Usage

const MongoInMemory = require('mongo-memory')

const port = 8000
const dbPath = "./tempb/.data" // Mongodb placed some metadata
const mongoServerInstance = new MongoMemory(port, dbPath)

mongoServerInstance.start().then(server) => {

    mongoServerInstance.getMongouri('myDatabaseName')
    mongoServerInstance.getCollection('coll1')
    mongoServerInstance.getDocumentById('myDatabaseName', 'coll1', "<id>")
    mongoServerInstance.addDocument('myDatabaseName', 'coll1', { _id : "foo" })
    mongoServerInstance.addDirectoryOfCollections('myDatabaseName', '<path>')
    mongoServerInstance.mongodb.ObjectId // Mongodb driver
    mongoServerInstance.serialize // EJSON
    mongoServerInstance.deserialize // EJSON

})

mongoServerInstance.stop()

Run tests

$ npm run test

Caveats

• PR Pending: Newer mongodb versions aren't correctly detected as started mongodb-js/mongodb-prebuilt#40
• PR Pending: Due to a wrong protocol there are some issue to download the offical mongodb server mongodb-js/mongodb-download#31

What about BSON Types ?

You can use the EJSON format to express BSON Types with JSON e.g ObjectId, Date.

{
    "_id" : {
        "$oid": "ec939793b7d8fe8f9f2aa707"
    },
    'last_seen_at': {
        '$date': 1405266782008
    }
}

Background

Mongodb storageEngine ephemeralForTest is used. The connection is created by the official mongodb package.

Credits

Most code was copied from mongo-in-memory but with significant improvements:

Changes:

• Don't save metadata in node_modules
• Don't generate random folders
• Clean up of metadata must be handled by user
• 100% Promise API
• Support for BSON Types via EJSON
• Update mongodb-prebuilt to the newest version
• Update dependencies and tests
• Gracefully shutdown Mongodb when execute stop
• Create recursively databasePath