Mongo-DB with GO

This article aims at providing basic knowledge regarding the use of the mongo-DB database with your GO application.

There are certain pre-requisites before moving on:
- Mongo-DB installed and running on the default server port i.e. 27017
- Database username, password and a new db collection

For installation instructions and general information regarding creating users and collection in mongo, please visit the official mongo-DB documentation.

Getting Started

Let's create a new directory and a main.go file for us to work on.

mkdir mongo-go 
cd mongo-go
touch main.go

Before starting to work on the actual code, let's install the package go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo. To do enter the following in your terminal.

go get go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo

Now, go ahead and copy the following code in to your main.go file.

package main
import (
 "context"
 "fmt"
 "time"
"go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/bson"
 "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo"
 "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/options"
)
func main() {
 ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
 defer cancel()
 client, err := mongo.Connect(ctx…