Mongo Seeding CLI

The ultimate CLI tool for populating your MongoDB database 🚀

Define MongoDB documents in JSON, JavaScript or even TypeScript file(s). Import them with command line interface.

Installation

To install the app, run the following command:

npm install -g mongo-seeding-cli

Usage

1. Follow the tutorial to define documents and collections to import.

2. In order to seed your database with data from current directory using default configuration, run the following command:

   seed

3. You can specify custom settings with command line parameters. The following example imports data from ./example/data directory using MongoDB connection URI mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/mydb with option to drop database before import:

   seed -u 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/mydb' --drop-database ./example/data

   You can also use environmental variables to configure the CLI. For example:

   DB_URI='mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/mydb' DROP_DATABASE=true seed ./example/data

   Full configuration options are described in Configuration section.

Configuration

You can configure data import with command line parameters or environmental variables.

Note: Command line parameters have always a higher priority over environmental variables.

Command line parameters

You can use the following parameters while using seed tool:

Name	Default Value	Description
{PATH}	current directory	Path to directory containing import data
--db-uri {URI} or -u {URI}	undefined	If defined, the URI will be used for establishing connection to database, ignoring values defined via other db-* parameters (e.g. db-name, db-host, etc.)
--db-protocol {DB_PROTOCOL}	mongodb	MongoDB database protocol
--db-host {DB_HOST}	127.0.0.1	MongoDB database host
--db-port {DB_PORT}	27017	MongoDB database port
--db-name {DB_NAME}	database	Name of the database
--db-username {DB_USERNAME}	undefined	Username for connecting with database that requires authentication
--db-password {DB_PASSWORD}	undefined	Password for connecting with database that requires authentication
--db-options	undefined	MongoDB connection options in a form of multiple {key}={value} values, separated by semicolon. For example: ssl=true;maxPoolSize=50
--drop-database	false	Drops entire database before data import
--drop-collections	false	Drops every collection which is being imported
--remove-all-documents	false	Delete all documents from every collection that is being imported
--replace-id	false	Replaces id property with _id for every document during data import
--set-timestamps	false	Sets createdAt and updatedAt timestamps for every document during data import
--reconnect-timeout	10000	Maximum time in milliseconds of waiting for successful MongoDB connection
--ejson-parse-canonical-mode	false	Enables EJSON Canonical Mode for all parsed .json files. By default the EJSON Relaxed mode is enabled.
--transpile-only	false	Disables type checking on TypeScript files import. This option vastly improves performance of TypeScript data import
--silent or -s	false	Disables printing logging of Mongo Seeding status to standard output
--help or -h	n/a	Help

Environmental variables

You can use the following environmental variables while using seed tool:

Name	Default Value	Description
DB_URI	undefined	If defined, the URI is used for establishing connection to database, ignoring values given in DB_* environmental variables (e.g. DB_HOST, DB_PORT, etc.).
DB_HOST	127.0.0.1	MongoDB database host
DB_PORT	27017	MongoDB database port
DB_NAME	database	Name of the database
DB_USERNAME	undefined	Username for connecting with database that requires authentication
DB_PASSWORD	undefined	Password for connecting with database that requires authentication
DB_OPTIONS	undefined	MongoDB connection options in a form of multiple {key}={value} values, separated by semicolon. For example: ssl=true;maxPoolSize=50.
DROP_DATABASE	false	Drops entire database before data import
DROP_COLLECTIONS	false	Drops every collection which is being imported
REMOVE_ALL_DOCUMENTS	false	Delete all documents from every collection that is being imported
REPLACE_ID	false	Replaces id property with _id for every document during import; useful for ORMs
SET_TIMESTAMPS	false	Sets createdAt and updatedAt timestamps for every document during data import
RECONNECT_TIMEOUT	10000	Maximum time in milliseconds of waiting for successful MongoDB connection
EJSON_PARSE_CANONICAL_MODE	false	Enables EJSON Canonical Mode for all parsed .json files. By default the EJSON Relaxed mode is enabled.
TRANSPILE_ONLY	false	Disables type checking on TypeScript files import. This option vastly improves performance of TypeScript data import
SILENT	false	Disables printing logging of Mongo Seeding status to standard output