I haven't used mongo-hacker for a few years, so I forgot how to run it. For whatever reason I assumed that it runs as it's own shell app.
Reading the README, it wasn't obvious to me.
I spent about 15 mins trying to figure it out, going into ~/.nvm/versions/node/v17.2.0/lib/node_modules/mongo-hacker and trying to run the js files with node haha.
I thought maybe because it hasn't been updated since 2019 (around the time of Mongo 3.4 apparently, and now we're on Mongo 5) that it was probably old and broken.
I was getting print() not defined, and _isWindows not defined etc. i tried hacking the JS and adding in const print = console.log; and const _isWindows = () => false; etc hahaha
Then finally I checked the make file and noticed it updates .mongorc then I looked at .mongorc etc and realized it probably runs inside mongo
I think 2 lines would save many people the trouble of wondering how to run it.
TylerBrock
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I haven't used mongo-hacker for a few years, so I forgot how to run it. For whatever reason I assumed that it runs as it's own shell app. Reading the README, it wasn't obvious to me. I spent about 15 mins trying to figure it out, going into ~/.nvm/versions/node/v17.2.0/lib/node_modules/mongo-hacker and trying to run the js files with node haha. I thought maybe because it hasn't been updated since 2019 (around the time of Mongo 3.4 apparently, and now we're on Mongo 5) that it was probably old and broken. I was getting print() not defined, and _isWindows not defined etc. i tried hacking the JS and adding in
const print = console.log;andconst _isWindows = () => false;etc hahaha Then finally I checked the make file and noticed it updates .mongorc then I looked at .mongorc etc and realized it probably runs insidemongoI think 2 lines would save many people the trouble of wondering how to run it.