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- The Stock Endpoint
- Creating Posts via the API
- MongoDB Models with Mongoose
- Using Mongoose Models with the POST Endpoint
- Next Steps
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
MongoDB Models with Mongoose
To interact with MongoDB, you will be using the Mongoose ODM. It’s a light layer on top of the Mongo driver. To add the npm package, do this:
$ npm install --save mongoose
It’ll be good to keep this code modularized so your server.js file doesn’t get huge. Let’s add a db.js file with some of the base database connection logic:
var mongoose = require('mongoose')
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/social', function () {
console.log('mongodb connected')
})
module.exports = mongoose
You can get access to this mongoose instance by using the require function. Now let’s create a mongoose model to store the posts. Place this code in models/post.js:
var db = require('../db')
var Post = db.model('Post', {
username: { type: String, required: true },
body: { type: String, required: true },
date: { type: Date, required: true, default: Date.now }
})
module.exports = Post
Now you have a model you can get with require. You can use it to interact with the database.