mongoMyAdmin

We all loved phpMyAdmin, didn't we?

Here is your go to admin frontend for your mongoDB for the 21st century!

Setup:

Nothing fancy ... if you know your way around nextjs, it should all seem pretty familiar. We are already using next' new "app router" (as of June 2023).

• Initial Setup: git clone https://github.com/orderlion/mongoMyAdmin.git
• Install packages: yarn install
• Make sure that your mondoDB is running
• Update your mongoMyAdmin.config.js file accordingly (or make sure to set the MONGO_URL env var)
• ???
• Profit!

Usage:

Very straightforward. You can pass the MONGO_URL either as environment variable or define it in the config file: mongoMyAdmin.config.js.

MONGO_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb" yarn run dev

If you want to run in even quicker production mode, just run:

MONGO_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb" yarn run build
MONGO_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb" yarn run start

At the moment, the config file mongoMyAdmin.config.js (in root) only supports 2 options, but we are planning to extend this in the future.

{
  mongoUrl: String // instead of passing the MONGO_URL as env variable, just put your connection string here.
  excludeCollections: [String] // Array of collection names which should be hidden in the UI - useful to hide "internal collections".
}

Docker usage:

Of course, first make sure that docker is properly setup on your machine. We prepared some helper functions for you:

yarn run docker-build
MONGO_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb" yarn run docker-run

If you want to access the mongoMyAdmin docker container directly from your host (instead of running it behind a reverse proxy like traefik), make sure to also expose port 3000 in the Dockerfile, by adding the following line right before the final CMD property in your Dockerfile:

// add this line:
EXPOSE 3000

// the following line should already be inside your Dockerfile at the very end:
CMD ["node", "server.js"]

We are automatically replacing localhost in your mongoDb connection string with 172.17.0.1 (your host's local IP to access it from inside the docker container).

Please make sure to add 172.17.0.1 to your bindIp setting inside your mongod.conf file.

Without this setting, you will not be able to connect to your host's mongoDB instance from inside the container.

If you want to use docker-compose.yml, a simple usage might look a bit like this:

version: "3"
services:

  # ... all your other services go here!

  mongomyadmin:
    build:
      context: ./path/to/your/mongoMyAdmin
      args: 
        # We need the MONGO_URL also as ARG at build time
        - MONGO_URL=mongodb://user:password@host.mongodb.net/yourdb
    container_name: mongomyadmin
    environment:
      # the actual MONGO_URL used at run time
      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://user:password@host.mongodb.net/yourdb
    restart: unless-stopped

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But why? (Features)

We checked pretty much all solutions out there, but not a single one covered our use case:

• proper quick pagination
• easy to use JSON query and JSON doc editor (Monaco)
• auto-repairs JSONs with missing quotation marks
• can be self-hosted
• can be dockerized
• easy to modify
• uses up-to-date techstack including mondern mongodb driver
• can handle big collections including proper counts/pagination
• can directly link to single documents via their _id (in the url)

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Screenshots

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Planned upcoming features

• CRUD indexes
• change page size of pagination
• support for multiple dbs

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Have fun! Made with ❤️ in Vienna, by Orderlion.