Question

I created my Schema‘s in my models/mymodel.js file. I also have my models in there as well as my methods.

How do I export them into my routes?

Answer 1

// route.js
var mongoose = require("mongoose");

var Posts = mongoose.model("posts")
...

Ensure that you set up a bootstrap mechanism that runs all your model files. Once that is done you should have called mongoose.model("name", Model) for a set of models.

This has cached those models in mongoose internally. So you can just call mongoose.model("name") anywhere you want.

The only thing that’s important is order of execution. The model & schemas need to be registered before you run your routes.

This is as a simple as :

// create app
var app = express.createServer(...);
// do stuff with app

var files = fs.readdirSync("models");
files.forEach(function(file) {
  require("models/" + file);
});

var routes = fs.readdirSync("routes");
routes.forEach(function(route) {
  require("routes/" + route)(app);
});

app.listen(80);

Note that normally readdirSync is evil but it’s ok to execute blocking calls at startup time (like require) before your listen to your server