devbabar / crud-mongodb

Simple application to perform basic Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations using Python's framework Flask and MongoDB as database.

CRUD-MongoDB

Simple application to perform basic Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations using Python's framework Flask and MongoDB as database.

Steps to run this project:

Step 1:

Create a folder.

$ mkdir mongodb_pymongo

Create a virtual enviroment.

$pip install virtualenv

$ cd mongodb_pythongo

$ virtualenv env

$ source env/bin/activate

Step 2:

Install requirements.txt

$pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3:

NoSQL database is been used for this project. mLab: Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB.

1. Create an account at mLab.
2. Create a database "mongo_portfolio_projects" or whatever you like.
3. Create a Collection: "users".

Step 4:

Add your own credentials to the following.

app.config["MONGO_DBNAME"]

app.config["MONGO_URI"]

Step 5:

Run project.

$ python mongodb_pymongo.py

Object in users collection at mLAb:

{ "_id": { "$oid": "5b644abeb2ea1e07d856a829" }, "name": "Simon", "language": "English" }