How to Setup NodeJs with MongoDB on Ubuntu

This article will help you to Install MongoDB with NodeJs and configure their connectivity using Mongoose node app on Ubuntu and Debian systems. For PHP users use our previous article to configure MongoDB with PHP and Apache2 on Ubuntu servers.

Step 1: Install MongoDB

Firstly we will install MongoDB on our system. Import public key of 10gen repository in our system which is required for checking packages during installation and then add the repository also.

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
$ echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list

Now use the following command to install latest version of MongoDB.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mongodb-org mongodb-org-server

Step 2: Install Nodejs

For installing nodejs, first we need to add nodejs apt repository in our system maintained by Chris Lea. Execute the following commands one by one to add repository and install Nodejs with NPM in our system.

$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

To check installed version of node.js and npm run following commands

$ sudo npm install mongoose

//This code requires mongoose node module
var mongoose = require('mongoose');

//connecting local mongodb database named test
var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test');

//testing connectivity
mongoose.connection.once('connected', function() {
	console.log("Database connected successfully")
});

$ node test.js

Database connected successfully