Creating a MongoLab free sandbox account

MongoLab is cloud service required to use MongoDB as a service. It offers a free limited account as a sandbox, so we can use it to deploy our project:

  1. Proceed to the Sign Up page; after that, you will receive two emails from MongoLab, one with a welcome message and another with a link to verify your account, if you don't have one yet.

    After you verify your account, you will see the following screenshot when logging in to your dashboard:

    Creating a MongoLab free sandbox account

    MongoLab welcome screen

  2. Click on the Create new button.
  3. Choose the Single-node tab.
  4. From the standard line panel, choose the first checkbox for Sandbox.
  5. Scroll down to the end ...

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