In lesson 13, you got up and running with MongoDB. With a database connected to your Node.js application, you’re ready to save and load data. In this lesson, you apply a more object-oriented approach to your data. First, you install the Mongoose package, a tool that provides a syntactic layer between your application logic and your database. Mongoose allows you to convert your application data to fit a model structure. Later in the lesson, you build your first model and schema to represent newsletter subscribers to your recipe application.
This lesson covers
- Installing and connecting Mongoose to your Node.js application
- Creating a schema
- Building and instantiating Mongoose data models
- Loading and saving data with custom methods
Consider this
You finally have a database connected to your application, but data can change over time. One day, you may want to require all recipes to follow the same format. How can you determine such a structure and make sure that all saved data follows that structure’s rules?
In this lesson, you explore Mongoose, a library used to create model schema. When you use these schemas, your data begins to follow strict rules that only you can customize.
14.1. Setting up Mongoose with your Node.js application