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MEAN Web Development

You're reading from   MEAN Web Development Master real-time MEAN web application development and learn how to construct a MEAN application using a combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783983285
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amos Q. Haviv Amos Q. Haviv
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Preface 1. Introduction to MEAN 2. Getting Started with Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Express Web Application 4. Introduction to MongoDB 5. Introduction to Mongoose 6. Managing User Authentication Using Passport 7. Introduction to AngularJS 8. Creating a MEAN CRUD Module 9. Adding Real-time Functionality Using Socket.io 10. Testing MEAN Applications 11. Automating and Debugging MEAN Applications Index

Extending your Mongoose schema


Performing data manipulations is great, but to develop complex applications, you will need your ODM module to do more. Luckily, Mongoose supports various other features that help you safely model your documents and keep your data consistent.

Defining default values

Defining default field values is a common feature for data modeling frameworks. You can add this functionality directly in your application's logic layer, but that would be messy and is generally a bad practice. Mongoose offers to define default values at the schema level, helping you organize your code better and guarantee your documents' validity.

Let's say you want to add a created date field to your UserSchema. The created date field should be initialized at creation time and save the time the user document was initially created; a perfect example of when you can utilize a default value. To do so, you'll have to change your UserSchema, so go back to your app/models/user.server.model.js file and...

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