Add support for MongoDB databases

README.md

@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ It will open the project in your default browser with livereload enabled.
 This will take care of reloading the page when you change your code.
 
 
+## Connect to a database
+
+You can specify the URL to the MongoDB database you want to use with the `MONGODB_URL` environment variable.
+
+    MONGODB_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/loopback-angular-admin" npm start
+
+Set `INITDB` to true if you want to load the initial dataset, which creates the admin user. The memory database (default) does this automatically.
+
+    INITDB=true MONGODB_URL="mongodb://localhost:27017/loopback-angular-admin" npm start
+
+
 ## Development
 
 For development you'd want to look into [yeoman](http://yeoman.io).

package.json

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     "loopback": "^2.5.0",
     "loopback-boot": "^2.1.0",
     "loopback-component-storage": "^1.0.5",
+    "loopback-connector-mongodb": "^1.4.4",
     "serve-favicon": "^2.1.5"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {

server/boot/init.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 module.exports = function(app) {
 
-  if (app.dataSources.db.name !== 'Memory') {
+  if (app.dataSources.db.name !== 'Memory' && !process.env.INITDB) {
     return;
   }
 

server/datasources.local.js

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+var MONGODB_URL = process.env.MONGODB_URL || null;
+
+if(MONGODB_URL) {
+  module.exports = {
+    db: {
+      name: "db",
+      connector: "loopback-connector-mongodb",
+      url: MONGODB_URL
+    }
+  };
+}