RFC - use mongo shell source js files directly

[AD7six]

Before finding this repo I started playing around with the idea of including only lightly modified files from https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/shell

by lightly modified I mean for example appending this to the end of collection.js

module.exports.DBCollection = DBCollection;
module.exports.MapReduceResult = MapReduceResult;

and have something like this as the module index.js : https://gist.github.com/30ddac8c67a940c641ab

My current code is only a proof of concept (though you can load it, and get some semi-valid responses, it doesn't connect and therefore isn't useable - yet) but if I can get it to work at all I'll publish it and point at it :). My intention would be to have a node interface which is always up to date with the mongo-shell syntax and functionality.

As a project with a similar goal I wonder if you had also considered doing this, or if you have an opinion as to the viability of the general idea.

[marcello3d]

The primary issue with the mongo shell code is that it's all synchronous blocking calls. This makes using the source as-is pretty much impossible on Node.js. You'd have to use fibers or some other kind of pre-processing to make it node.js compatible.

Since the goals of the mongo shell (administration) are slightly different from Mongolian DeadBeef ([web]app development on node.js), Mongolian DB diverges where appropriate.

[AD7six]

thanks for the comment :)