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JavaScript

Posted by Ikuyasu Usui
Ikuyasu Usui
36 Points

In User = mongoose('User', UserSchema), which User is actually important?

Is it okay to have const User = mongoose('Userrr', UserSchema); module.exports = User; ?

and use 'Userrr' as a class in the exported file like const user = new Userrr(); ?

Do we code like that just to make things clear?

Nick Trabue
Nick Trabue
Courses Plus Student 12,666 Points

According to the docs http://mongoosejs.com/docs/models.html

The first argument is the singular name of the collection your model is for. Mongoose automatically looks for the plural version of your model name.

So you'd be telling mongoose to look for your userrrs collection in the database which is probably not what you want.

the variable name is what you're going to call to create a new one. So if you had something like

const User = require('path-to-models-folder/User')

const jon = new User({ displayName: 'Jon Doe' });
jon.save(function (err) {
  if (err) return handleError(err);
  // saved!
})