Mongo-Rest-Client

A MongoDB connector that uses fetch to communicate with DB. Fully type safe rest api based connector. Runs everywhere from NodeJS to Edge runtime.

Features

• Fully Type-Safe Schema based connector
  • Instead of calling db.collection("users").insertOne(...), you call db.users.insertOne(UserObject)
• No Crypto Module requried (Can run in both NodeJS and Edge Network (like Vercel))
• Framework agnostic - Run anywhere that runs JS
• Uses fetch api under-the-hood. So take advantage of caching in framework like NextJS

Supported Functions

• Find one document (findOne)
• Find many documents (findMany)
• Insert One Document (insertOne)
• Insert Documents (insertMany)
• Update One Document (updateOne)
• Update Documents (updateMany)
• Delete One Document (deleteOne)
• Delete Documents (deleteMany)
• Aggregate Documents (todo)

Usage

Create a db by passing baseUrl (of data api), apiKey, dbName, and a schemaBuilder (a function that takes db instance and return an object of db.collection (add type to this object to take full advantage of it))

// db.ts file
import { MongoDB } from "mongo-rest-client";
export const db = MongoDB.connect({
  baseUrl: process.env.mongoDBUrl,
  apiKey: process.env.mongoDBApiKey,
  dbName: process.env.mongoDBName,
  schemaBuilder: (db) => ({
    users: db.collection<User>("users"),
    posts: db.collection<Post>("posts"),
  }),
});

// use it anywhere
await db.users.insertOne(...) // typesafe
await db.users.updateOne(...) // typesafe filter and data
const user = db.users.findOne({
    postID: "something..." // Compile-time ERROR: postID does not exists in User
}) // typesafe Filter
const user = db.users.findOne({
  _id: {
    $oid: "valid mongo db id"
  } // MongoDB requires an ObjectID. Dont worry its typesafe
}) // typesafe Filter

Limitations

mongo-rest-client uses the Data API from MongoDB. Hence, it has all the limitations of DataAPI like transactions. Read more here: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/app-services/data-api/openapi/