MongoDB Atlas Hackathon Help Thread

If you're participating in the MongoDB Atlas Hackathon and you need some help with your submission, welcome! You are in the right place and we're excited to help.

If you have any questions about how this contest works (ex: due dates, how to post your submission, picking a category, etc.) the DEV team will be happy to assist you.

If you are running into issues or get stuck when it comes to using MongoDB, we will surface all technical questions for the MongoDB team and answer here on their behalf!

Please comment below if you need asynchronous assistance with the MongoDB Atlas Hackathon ❤️

P.S. If you'd like to share an update on the progress you're making on your project or if you'd like to connect with other participants, please do so in the community update thread!

Comments

[JoelJJoseph]

Hi When will the winners be announced today?
I'm looking forward to hearing the results.

[offline]

This is unfortunate, but I just want to say, I've been trying to do a project with Atlas Time Series, and the documentation for it is not the best. As a beginner, it isn't simple to pick up. Furthermore, the docs I've found online, sometimes are inconsistent.

I hope the MongoDB team works to improve the docs in the near future. Thank you!

[Simon Richard]

I noticed some discrepancies in the deadline; on the main post is says the deadline in 11:59 UTC, and on the template post it says the deadline is 11:59 PT (5:59 UTC). Any ideas?

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Hi there! So sorry about this confusion. We will count all submissions that came through by 7:59 AM UTC on January 14. There were some error on our end and you shouldn't have your submission status impacted because of that!

[hawking radiation]

if my project is a web application so do i need to host it somewhere in order to post it for the hackathon or the source code is enough for it?
do the project need to run on there local machine or container for the project to be considered valid?

[benthecoder]

I made a post but it says it's Unpublished Post, is that supposed to happen? Have I submitted to the hackathon?

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

HI there! Did you change published to true in the submission post?

[Souvik Mandal]

In the hackathon Rules section as it's been written ...the Entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account of the individual or team leader specified in the Entry Materials. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider..., my question is How judges will recognise my mongoDB authorised account from my dev post and github repository?
I'm asking because I'm using different email which is authorised by mongodb but I haven't provided it in either dev.to or github profile.
Should I provide my mongodb authorised email in the dev post?

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[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Hello! This section of the rules refers to the event of a dispute about the author/participant. Unless a dispute is raised, we simply refer to the submission post and do our best to verify an association between the DEV account and the details provided via the GitHub code and through MongoDB.

All of this said, we will reach out to you individually about your submission to verify your email address if necessary. Thank you for flagging!

[Jackson Kasi]

please help me anyone. nodemailer failed to excite on MongoDB Realm... how to fix?
more info: stackoverflow.com/q/70696512/14395392

[Jackson Kasi]

please me help anyone. nodemailer failed to excite on MongoDB Realm... how to fix?
more info: stackoverflow.com/q/70696512/14395392

[Joel Lord]

You will need to add nodemailer as a dependency. I've provided more details on StackOverflow.

[Jackson Kasi]

sir now no problem, nodemailer 6.4.10 version is support on mongodb realm

[Jackson Kasi]

sir, I am already add dependencies "nodemailer" . but still same error

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Hi @mongodb_staff and @thepracticaldev , when will the hackathon be over i.e. the last time to complete the hackathon. Is it 13 Jan 2022 11:59 pm PT or 13 Jan 2022 11:59 pm UTC?

In the announcement article, both times can be seen written.
The PT time is mentioned in "Additional rules"
The UTC time is mentioned in "Important dates".

Please clarify as I don't want to miss out on the opportunity and miss submitting my project.

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

So sorry for any confusion. The deadline was 13 Jan, 2022 at 11:59 UTC — however we misrepresented this initially so we will be counting all submissions that we receive through 7:59 AM UTC on January 14

[Anika Tibrewala]

Hi, kindly consider our project, we submitted project following the deadline "Submissions are due on January 13th, 2022 @ 11:59 PM PT/2 AM ET on January 14th, 2022/6 AM UTC on January 14th, 2022" as shared previously. We've put in a lot of effort in our project, requesting you to kindly consider the submission for the hackathon.

[Valentine Sean Chanengeta]

Same this side, I was relying on the submission template deadline

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Hi everyone! So sorry for this confusion and for the errors in the announcement post. There were mistakes with the deadline as it was originally written and I sincerely apologize.

We will consider all entries submitted up until January 13th, 2022 @ 11:59 PM PT/2:59 AM ET on January 14/7:59 AM UTC on January 14, 2022. Not to worry! @valentinesean22, @hinasoftwareengineer, @geekysrm

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Thank you so much for clarifying that! :)

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Of course. I hate to think that this mistake on my end caused you all stress. Thank you for participating! We will make sure that this mistake doesn't happen again in future hackathons.

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Thanks for organizing the hackathon :)

[Anika Tibrewala]

Thank you so much!

[Valentine Sean Chanengeta]

You are welcome. And thank you for the provision of such an opportunity, I learnt a lot and I am still learning. I am looking forward for other many events in the future.

[Hina-softwareEngineer]

Hi Gracie, I have seen this now and submitted my post a little while ago and i am so worried to see that the mentioned date in artilce is wrong as you are saying 12 Jan utc. I was considering the 13 Jan 11:59 pm PT time from the article.

[Hina-softwareEngineer]

Kindly consider the posts till 11:59PM PT as this was due to the confusion of the dates. As we all have spent many hours on buildling the useful applications.

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Don't worry! Your submission will be counted because the error was on our end!

[Hina-softwareEngineer]

Thank you so much Gracie for clarifying and organizaing this hackathon :). Looking forward for more hackathons.

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Please reply to my query.

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

12 Jan? 😟
I haven't yet submitted and the post was (is) saying till 13th Jan.
And I can see people submitting after 12th as well.

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

So sorry. I have made a few errors here. Corrected my comment to reflect the correct information. The important thing is that your project will be counted as long as we received it through 7:59 AM UTC on January 14

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Thank you so much!

[Anika Tibrewala]

Hi, we're trying to deploy our application to heroku. Our session is not persisteing, (heroku: backend, Angular: frontend), we're using mongo-connect but it's not persisting, would be really helpful if anyone could help us with this!

[Mayank Modi]

Hey how do i identify if my project has been considered for the competition ?

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

Hi there! We consider/manually review all submission posts that feature original work and follow the rules listed in the announcement post!

[supriya maturu]

how to post my submission

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Hey, just create a new article submitting your project following this template: dev.to/new/atlashackathon

[Taofiq Aiyelabegan]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to deploy my NextJS and Mongo Db Project on Vercel and each time I deploy its giving 500: Server error'

I included my mongodb url and the devurl(localhost:3000) as the env variable on vercel during build time but still getting error

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Hi.
It would be difficult to help before seeing your repo. Can you share your GitHub repo so we can see the issue?

Also, the devUrl shouldn't be used in prod deployment in Vercel, AFAIK.

[Taofiq Aiyelabegan]

Hi Soumya,

here is my github repository of the project: github.com/Taofiqq/fudo

Also, how do I go about the localhost because that is what I am using to make api calls in local.

Thank you

[Taofiq Aiyelabegan]

Hi Soumya,

here is my github repository of the project: github.com/Taofiqq/fudo

[Abdul Samad]

Is there a way to call a realm function from nodejs file using the MongoClient instance. If not, what is the right package realm or realm-web for doing this.

[Joel Lord]

Yes, you can use the realm-web package for this. To call a serverless function called sum with the arguments 2 and 3, you would use the following code:

const functionName = "sum";
const args = [2, 3];
const result = await user.callFunction(functionName, args);

You can find out more about how to use Realm functions in the documentation.

[Abdul Samad]

thanks it worked.

[Abdul Samad]

What I meant by MongoClient instance is the one which I used to query my Atlas database and collections.

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Hi, I have most of the server side logic for my app inside Realm Functions which I wrote using the UI Editor. How do I show that code in GitHub repo?
Do I create a folder called realm_functions and put all function codes there in separate files?

[Julien]

Hi, you can use the realm-cli and do realm-cli pull to get your project on your disk 😉

docs.mongodb.com/realm/cli/realm-c...

[Soumya Ranjan Mohanty]

Thank you, will try this 🙂