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Show HN: Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

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Damn it! Someone make a manager called Sheriff Bart. Mongo loves Sheriff Bart.

Huh, the darwin build triggers Chrome's built in malicious file protection.

OSX doesn't even let me open it.

ctrl-double-click or ctrl-right-click > open

yup exactly right, for now you'll have to do this until we do a real release of the app and codesign it Apple

How do projects like this gets funded?

yea no funding for this project at the moment, just something I've been working on in my spare time.

What makes you think there is funding involved?

I have something similar to this, that I haven't opensourced it yet. I'm thinking of ways to get funding when I opensource the project. Here's what it looks like https://curtain-ui.herokuapp.com/?/new

I made something similar a while ago (pre-electron): https://github.com/contra/smog

I published some modules along with it that made the process a lot easier. Maybe you can use some of them to make your life easier with mongotron :) Editing/inserting documents was a pain but it's all there if you want to yank it.

Can this connect to remote databases? I would love to use this to connect to my Meteor app's database.

absolutely you can connect to remote database. In the connection manager (cmd-o) click the 'Create' button, enter the remote address to your database in the host field and the port, username, password etc.. let me know if you have any issues

Looks good! There are some "apps built with Electron" lists you could add this to (like the one on the frontpage of electron.atom.io).

yea great idea, thanks! I'll submit a PR and see if the Electron guys will add it.

seems the edit document is not implemented yet. Other than that would start using this today. great little project.

yea edit document is a very new feature I'm just starting to work on, one of the last couple of things I'm hoping to finish up before a v1 release.

Great name.

thanks!

150mb? Am I the only one who thinks the size is ridiculous?

That's what you get when you build desktop applications using web technologies.

Yea that's definitely a down side to using Electron. Looks like around 130mb is the expected size for an Electron app.

https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2003

although looking at the Slack app (which is built on Electron) it's only 18mb, so maybe I just need to look into slimming down the build.

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