Running the mongo shell
The mongo shell is an interactive tool for MongoDB that comes as a part of the MongoDB installation. It is a good place to start getting familiar with MongoDB operations. Once MongoDB is installed and running, you can run the mongo shell on the command line. In the mongo shell, you can use commands to query and update data and perform administrative operations.
You could also skip the local installation of MongoDB and instead deploy a MongoDB database in the cloud using MongoDB Atlas (https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas). It is a global cloud database service that can be used to add fully managed MongoDB databases to modern applications.
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