Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

Using mLab

If you don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up the DB locally, you can use a MongoDB as a service such as mLab (https://mlab.com/) for this. In this book, I am going to follow this approach. Instead of having a local database, I will be using an instance of mLab.

To setup an mLab MongoDB instance, first navigate to https://mlab.com/login/ and login. If you do not have an account, you can create one by navigating to https://mlab.com/signup/.

mLab has a free tier, which we are going to leverage to build our reference architecture. The free tire is perfect for development and prototyping projects like ours. Once we are done with the actual development and we are ready for a production grade application, we can look at some ...