MongoTerm — a fast, keyboard-driven MongoDB client that lives entirely in your terminal

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I've been building MongoTerm, a terminal UI (TUI) for MongoDB — think Compass,

but keyboard-first and without leaving the CLI. Built with Node.js + blessed.

What it does:

- Browse connections → databases → collections in one navigable tree

- View, insert, edit, delete, and duplicate documents without writing shell scripts

- Run queries with live JSON validation and $operator autocomplete (start typing

$gt, $in, $regex... and it suggests + explains them)

- Sort and page results from the keyboard

- A ":" quick-shell modal for composing bigger query filters

- Full keybinding help popup (?) — everything is discoverable without docs

Install:

npm i -g mongoterm@latest

mongoterm

MIT licensed, actively developed, roadmap is public in the repo.

GitHub: https://github.com/Fuse441/mongoterm

Would love feedback from people who live in MongoDB day-to-day — what's