So I have been googling but I can't find a way to easily connect a mongo database with jquery without the use of Node or any other server-esque thing. Eventually I'll get to Node but I want the simplest lightweight way first. I should add that I don't need to POST data, just GET so I think it's possible...seems like it should be a simple ajax call but I'm not very experienced with that yet and I can't seem to figure out where to start. I imagine it'd be something like:

$.ajax({
  url: "localhost/27017/databasename/"
});
  .done(function() {
    collection.find()
  }

and yes mongod is running. anyone done this before and/or have a tutorial or some help they can link me with?