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Mongoose for Application Development

You're reading from   Mongoose for Application Development Mongoose streamlines application development on the Node.js stack and this book is the ideal guide to both the concepts and practical application. From connecting to a database to re-usable plugins, it's all here.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168195
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simon Holmes Simon Holmes
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Mongoose for Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Mongoose to the Technology Stack 2. Establishing a Database Connection FREE CHAPTER 3. Schemas and Models 4. Interacting with Data – an Introduction 5. Interacting with Data – Creation 6. Interacting with Data – Reading, Querying, and Finding 7. Interacting with Data – Updating 8. Interacting with Data – Deleting 9. Validating Data 10. Complex Schemas 11. Plugins – Re-using Code Index

Model methods and instance methods


As we have seen in Chapter 3, Schemas and Models, a document in a Mongoose collection is a single instance of a model. So it makes sense that if we're going to work with our data then it will be through the model.

So what do we mean by model methods? Well, if we have a model called User, some of the methods provided by Mongoose are User.create, User.find, User.update, and User.remove. The method names may be slightly different, but out of the box we've got methods for all four CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations right there.

Instance methods are the same concept, except that they are applied to specific instances instead. We will look at a good example of this soon, with the instance.save method.

Mongoose also allows you to define your own model methods, giving you the flexibility to create the functionality you want. We'll see more about these static methods and create one ourselves in Chapter 6, Interacting with Data – Reading, Querying, and...

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