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Install Mongo on MacOS

First you need tap official #mongo brew:

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brew tap mongodb/brew

Then just install mongo with:

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brew install mongodb-community

There is one tool which people often want to install on its own, and that’s the MongoDB shell.

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brew install mongodb-community-shell

You can also install only database tools for managing mongo database:

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brew install mongodb-database-tools

Starting mongo

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brew services start mongodb-community

or stop

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brew services stop mongodb-community