Mongo shell as an interactive JavaScript interpreter
Do you have MongoDB installed? If you do then you have JavaScript interpreter. MongoDB has SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. To start an interactive shell you have to type mongo --nodb in the shell.
$ mongo --nodb
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.0
> var user = {name: "Anton Eprev", age: 27}
> user
{ "name" : "Anton Eprev", "age" : 27 }
> print(user)
[object Object]
> printjson(user)
{ "name" : "Anton Eprev", "age" : 27 }
> var numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
> print(numbers)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
> printjson(numbers)
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ]And of course the shell allows you to use loops, user functions and etc.:
> for (var i in user) { print(i, user[i]) }
name Anton Eprev
age 27
> function add(x){ return function(y){ return x + y } }
> add(3)(4)
7
> {
... for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
... print(i)
... }
0
1
…
9You can also use the cat function to read the file’s contents.
> var profile = cat('.profile')
> profile
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
…You may even explore global scope by executing printjson(this) and find out the following functions:
pwd()
ls()
cd()
mkdir()
hostname()
sleep()
hex_md5()
And finally, you can run a JavaScript file using MongoDB shell.
$ cat hello.js
print("Hello World!");
$ mongo --nodb hello.js
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.0
Hello World!Happy coding =]