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 we need. Its advantages are as follows:
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 at a click of a button. As a developer, we always query our relational database with a GUI-based thick client; so why not do the same for MongoDB?
In this recipe, we will see how to install some features of a MongoDB client, MongoVUE. This client is only available on Windows machines. This...