BoxyNoSql

Desktop NoSQL GUI client. Explore connections, databases, collections and documents.

Features

• ✅ Connection management (saved in ~/.config/BoxyNoSql/connections.json)
• ✅ Folder organization with drag & drop, color coding
• ✅ Database/collection tree view with search
• ✅ Document viewer (tree + table), multi-select, bulk copy/paste/delete
• ✅ Paginated document browsing with configurable limit
• ✅ Document view/edit with JSON syntax highlighting, shell-style ObjectId(...) / ISODate(...)
• ✅ Query terminal with Monaco editor: autocompletion (Ctrl+Space), Mongo method/operator/field suggestions, Ctrl+Enter to run, resizable split
• ✅ Aggregation pipeline builder
• ✅ Index management (create/drop) with usage stats
• ✅ Collection stats
• ✅ Import from JSON / NDJSON at three levels (document, collection, full database)
• ✅ Export JSON/CSV
• ✅ User/role management per database
• ✅ Per-tab persistent state: switching between collections/views keeps filters and results
• ✅ Four themes: dark 🌙 / light ☀️ / high-contrast ⚡ / solarized 🌊

Install

npm install

Development

npm run dev    # start Vite + tsc watchers
npm start      # open Electron (after dev server is up)

Build

npm run electron:build

Generates .deb in dist/ for Ubuntu/Debian.

Usage

1. Open the app
2. Click 🔌 + to add a connection (or right-click the sidebar)
3. Enter name and connection string (e.g. mongodb://localhost:27017)
4. Double-click connection to connect
5. Click a collection to open it

Mongo test docker

docker run -d --name mongodb-dev -p 27017:27017 -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=admin -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret mongo:7

docker exec -it mongodb-dev mongosh -u admin -p secret --authenticationDatabase admin

License

MIT — see LICENSE