Third-party tools

This page outlines some applications or tools that aid day-to-day development (and testing) of registry applications with Verne – Catalyst Cloud.

Database tools

To query Verne – Catalyst Cloud data stored using MongoDB by default, the tools of choice for querying and viewing data are Robot 3T or Compass.

When developing locally the connection string is the default: mongodb://localhost:27017

Elasticsearch

Kibana is used to manage Elasticsearch data. Once the Docker container is up and running locally, the Kibana dashboard can be accessed via http://localhost:5601/app/kibana which should load up something similar to the following.

You can then select either the Management or Dev Tools option (highlighted in the image above) to manage your indexes (e.g. delete one or more) or query your index data. Knowledge of Elasticsearch’s Query DSL will be required for running search queries.

In the Dev Tools space, the following queries will allow you to delete all or a single index respectively:

delete _all
delete nameofindextodelete

Source Management tools

These tools will help with Git by providing a graphical interface to execute Git commands. For Windows, Linux or Mac use Git Ahead or VSCode. For Windows or Mac Sourcetree is also an option.

You can use Magellan as well to Show Diff, Revert Changes, Compare with Revision and Commit.