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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Establishing a Database Connection 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

Creating and saving database entry in one step


We don't always need to run all the commands separately and can simplify do things by creating and saving the database entry in one step. There are two ways of doing this.

Chaining methods

The first way is to chain the newUser and .save commands into one line, for example:

var newUser = new User({
  name: 'Simon Holmes',
  email: 'simon@theholmesoffice.com',
  lastLogin : Date.now()
}).save( function( err ){
  if(!err){
    console.log('User saved!');
  }
});

The Model.create() method

The second way is to use a single-model method, which combines the new and the save operations into one command. This method takes two parameters. First is the data object, and the second is the callback function that is to be executed after the instance has been saved to the database.

So the blueprint for this method is:

ModelName.create(dataObject,callback)

Let's see this in operation, using our trusty User model:

User.create({
  name: 'Simon Holmes',
  email: 'simon...
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