Question

I’m working with the Nodepad tutorial on DailyJS. I’ve forked it and am extending it to work for my own purposes. One issue I have with it is that the whole application is written in the app.js file, and I prefer to separate my application a bit more. How should I write mongo into my seperate Model files since everything mongoose related is in app.js.

What do I need to bring over to my external files so that they can properly connect to the database and understand my mongoose schemas?

Answer 1

Here is an example pulled directly from Gitpilot:

user.js:

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , Schema = mongoose.Schema
  , ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId; //not needed here, but may be needed in another model file

UserSchema = new Schema({
    email: {type: String, "default": ''},
    created_at: {type: Date, Date.now}
});

User = mongoose.model('users', UserSchema); //name of collection is 'users'

module.exports.User = User;
module.exports.Schema = UserSchema;

Then in your other file…

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
  , User = require('./user').User;

mongoose.connection.once('open', function() {
  var u = new User({email: '[e-mail]'});
  u.save();
});
mongoose.connect(); //default connect to localhost, 27017

Note: Some fields were removed from the User model for the sake of brevity. Hope this helps.