Learning Single-page Web Application Development

Using MongoDB in the cloud

Today, we have many options to work with MongoDB, from in-house services to hosting companies that provide Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

We will present a solution called Database as a Service (DbaaS) that provides database services for highly scalable web applications.

Here's a simple step-by-step process to start using a MongoDB instance with a cloud service:

1. Go to https://www.compose.io/.
2. Create your free account.
3. On your dashboard panel, click on add Database.
4. On the right-hand side, choose Sandbox Database.
5. Name your database as node-api.
6. Add a user to your database.
7. Go back to your database title, click on admin.
8. Copy the connection string.
9. The string connection looks like this:

   mongodb://<user>:<password>@kahana.mongohq.com:10073/node-api. ...