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Query MongoDB Like a Human with ScoutDB

πŸ—₯️ So I was casually doomscrolling X (yes, again)... when I stumbled upon a post by DEV Community that made my brain short-circuit:

✨ β€œScoutDB turns plain English into MongoDB queries.”

Wait, what?!


🧠 The Problem

You've got the data questions, but not always the query-fu:

"Find all users who joined after Jan 2023 and liked more than 5 posts"
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Normally, you'd need to hand-craft some MongoDB incantation like:

db.users.aggregate([
  { $match: { joinDate: { $gte: ISODate("2023-01-01") }, likes: { $gt: 5 } } }
])
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But what if you could skip the syntax pain?


πŸš€ Enter ScoutDB

ScoutDB is like having a friendly AI that:

βœ… Understands what you're trying to ask in English
βœ… Writes the MongoDB query for you
βœ… Visually maps relationships across your collections
βœ… Gives you a canvas to explore like a boss


βš™οΈ How It Works

You type:

Show me all posts with more than 100 likes created in the last 30 days
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ScoutDB replies with:

db.posts.find({
  likes: { $gt: 100 },
  createdAt: { $gte: new Date(Date.now() - 30*24*60*60*1000) }
})
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Then maps the results and relationships for you in a visual explorer.
No more $lookup headaches. No more crying in JSON.


πŸ“Έ I Found It Like This

Saw this post by @ThePracticalDev on X πŸ‘‡
(I swear MongoDB and ScoutDB logos look like they just agreed to rescue all devs from query hell)

X post by Dev community


πŸ§ͺ TL;DR

  • πŸ—£οΈ English β†’ MongoDB query? βœ…
  • 🧠 Auto-maps your schema? βœ…
  • 🎨 Visual canvas for data exploration? βœ…
  • 🧣 Found it while doomscrolling Twitter? BIG βœ…
  • 🧡 Original Post from DEV Community

ScoutDB turns plain English into MongoDB queries.


πŸ’¬ So, are you still writing $match manually or are you letting ScoutDB take the wheel?
Tell me below πŸ‘‡

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Christian Arredondo β€’

❀️ thanks for writing about our product

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ScoutDB β€’

Thank you for the shoutout! You can join our waitlist to have early access :)

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