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It won’t be an exaggeration if one claims that in the past few months Node.js and MongoDB have literally taken the software and web industries by storm.

Not just bleeding-edge startups but even medium and large enterprises are leveraging these two technologies to deliver a better experience to their users by build more capable, performant and scalable apps.

So what is Node.js?

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

..and what is MongoDB?

MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database.

This post will cover the basics and get you started with your Node.js + MongoDB app. Make sure you have Node.js installed and MongoDB setup on your developer machine.

Let’s verify your Node.js installation and start the MongoDB server:

$ node -v
$ mongod

Introducing MongoJS
MongoJS is a brilliant little Node.js package that lets you access MongoDB using an API that is extremely similar to MongoDB’s JavaScript shell.