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Mongoose
ByMongooseMongoose

Mongoose

#13in Databases
Discussions7
Followers1.36k
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What is Mongoose?

Let's face it, writing MongoDB validation, casting and business logic boilerplate is a drag. That's why we wrote Mongoose. Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to modeling your application data and includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box.

Mongoose is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.

Mongoose Pros & Cons

Pros of Mongoose

  • ✓Several bad ideas mixed together
  • ✓Well documented
  • ✓JSON
  • ✓Actually terrible documentation
  • ✓Recommended and used by Valve. See steamworks docs
  • ✓Can be used with passportjs for oauth
  • ✓Yeah

Cons of Mongoose

  • ✗Model middleware/hooks are not user friendly

Mongoose Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Mongoose?

Mongoid

Mongoid

The philosophy of Mongoid is to provide a familiar API to Ruby developers who have been using Active Record or Data Mapper, while leveraging the power of MongoDB's schemaless and performant document-based design, dynamic queries, and atomic modifier operations.

Mongoose Integrations

JScrambler, eXist-db, Node.js, MongoDB, Lad and 4 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Mongoose. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Mongoose.

JScrambler
JScrambler
eXist-db
eXist-db
Node.js
Node.js
MongoDB
MongoDB
Lad
Lad
rest-hapi
rest-hapi
KintoHub
KintoHub
ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid
Copperx
Copperx

Mongoose Discussions

Discover why developers choose Mongoose. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Nikolas Till
Nikolas Till

Feb 9, 2021

Needs adviceonJestJestNode.jsNode.jsnpmnpm

For our web application's backend, we have decided to create our server using Node.js and npm as our package manager, as this allows us to utilize a developer's skills and knowledge in JS for both the frontend and backend. ExpressJS provides us an easy to learn framework that saves us effort, time and improves productivity in creating our server, while affording us room to add complexity. Passport will be used to implement Oauth2.0 authentication for our web application, allowing our users to sign in with their existing accounts (no one wants to create a remember the password for yet another account). Mongoose will be used to make calls to our backend, this framework will help make these calls more accessible and organized. We have decided to use Redis on our server for any caching we need. This will greatly speed up retrieval times and reduce calls to external sources for any data that could instead be cached on our server. Lastly, we will use Jest as our unit testing framework for our backend as it is very popular and has support for Node.js . Furthermore, this is the same testing framework we will be using for our frontend, thus allowing use quickly learn and implement testing in both frontend and backend.

We have decided to use Heroku as our hosting platform for our server. Heroku provides clear documentation and a quick and simple process to host Node.js applications with their service, along with great support with our version control Git. Furthermore, Heroku also provides a free tier, which allows us to deploy and test our web application from the beginning of development.

MongoDB is our chosen database as a NoSQL database will give us flexibility in storing different types of data and room for scaling our product. We have decided to use MongoDB Atlas to host our database. As they provide a quick and simple start up along with a free tier to host database. Thus, allowing us to rapidly test our server's uses with the database.

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Max Musing
Max Musing

Founder & CEO at BaseDash

May 11, 2020

Needs adviceonJavaScriptJavaScriptReactReactReduxRedux

Hey Mohd. Those are pretty good areas to start with. For front end, focus on getting really good at JavaScript and React. Specifically, learn how to manage state in complex apps. You might want to learn Redux to help with this. Make sure you're using semantic elements in your JSX and get good at using flexbox in your CSS 3. I wouldn't necessarily use Bootstrap, it's good practice to build components yourself. A good exercise is to try to replicate a website like StackOverflow or ProductHunt from scratch.

On backend, ExpressJS is a good place to start. Learn how to build semantic REST APIs that pull data from a database. MongoDB is fine, but I would suggest using Mongoose along with it to avoid nesting objects too much. You could alternatively use a SQL database like PostgreSQL, with an ORM like Sequelize to manage the data.

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Abdullah Amin
Abdullah Amin

Mar 6, 2020

Needs adviceonMongoDBMongoDBExpressJSExpressJSNode.jsNode.js

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Overview: To put it simply, we plan to use the MERN stack to build our web application. MongoDB will be used as our primary database. We will use ExpressJS alongside Node.js to set up our API endpoints. Additionally, we plan to use React to build our SPA on the client side and use Redis on the server side as our primary caching solution. Initially, while working on the project, we plan to deploy our server and client both on Heroku . However, Heroku is very limited and we will need the benefits of an Infrastructure as a Service so we will use Amazon EC2 to later deploy our final version of the application.

Serverside: nodemon will allow us to automatically restart a running instance of our node app when files changes take place. We decided to use MongoDB because it is a non relational database which uses the Document Object Model. This allows a lot of flexibility as compared to a RDMS like SQL which requires a very structural model of data that does not change too much. Another strength of MongoDB is its ease in scalability. We will use Mongoose along side MongoDB to model our application data. Additionally, we will host our MongoDB cluster remotely on MongoDB Atlas. Bcrypt will be used to encrypt user passwords that will be stored in the DB. This is to avoid the risks of storing plain text passwords. Moreover, we will use Cloudinary to store images uploaded by the user. We will also use the Twilio SendGrid API to enable automated emails sent by our application. To protect private API endpoints, we will use JSON Web Token and Passport. Also, PayPal will be used as a payment gateway to accept payments from users.

Client Side: As mentioned earlier, we will use React to build our SPA. React uses a virtual DOM which is very efficient in rendering a page. Also React will allow us to reuse components. Furthermore, it is very popular and there is a large community that uses React so it can be helpful if we run into issues. We also plan to make a cross platform mobile application later and using React will allow us to reuse a lot of our code with React Native. Redux will be used to manage state. Redux works great with React and will help us manage a global state in the app and avoid the complications of each component having its own state. Additionally, we will use Bootstrap components and custom CSS to style our app.

Other: Git will be used for version control. During the later stages of our project, we will use Google Analytics to collect useful data regarding user interactions. Moreover, Slack will be our primary communication tool. Also, we will use Visual Studio Code as our primary code editor because it is very light weight and has a wide variety of extensions that will boost productivity. Postman will be used to interact with and debug our API endpoints.

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Abdullah Amin
Abdullah Amin

Feb 9, 2020

Needs adviceonMongoDBMongoDBExpressJSExpressJSNode.jsNode.js

Overview: To put it simply, we plan to use the MERN stack to build our web application. MongoDB will be used as our primary database. We will use ExpressJS alongside Node.js to set up our API endpoints. Additionally, we plan to use React to build our SPA on the client side and use Redis on the server side as our primary caching solution. Initially, while working on the project, we plan to deploy our server and client both on Heroku. However, Heroku is very limited and we will need the benefits of an Infrastructure as a Service so we will use Amazon EC2 to later deploy our final version of the application.

Serverside: nodemon will allow us to automatically restart a running instance of our node app when files changes take place. We decided to use MongoDB because it is a non relational database which uses the Document Object Model. This allows a lot of flexibility as compared to a RDMS like SQL which requires a very structural model of data that does not change too much. Another strength of MongoDB is its ease in scalability. We will use Mongoose along side MongoDB to model our application data. Additionally, we will host our MongoDB cluster remotely on MongoDB Atlas. Bcrypt will be used to encrypt user passwords that will be stored in the DB. This is to avoid the risks of storing plain text passwords. Moreover, we will use Cloudinary to store images uploaded by the user. We will also use the Twilio SendGrid API to enable automated emails sent by our application. To protect private API endpoints, we will use JSON Web Token and Passport. Also, PayPal will be used as a payment gateway to accept payments from users.

Client Side: As mentioned earlier, we will use React to build our SPA. React uses a virtual DOM which is very efficient in rendering a page. Also React will allow us to reuse components. Furthermore, it is very popular and there is a large community that uses React so it can be helpful if we run into issues. We also plan to make a cross platform mobile application later and using React will allow us to reuse a lot of our code with React Native. Redux will be used to manage state. Redux works great with React and will help us manage a global state in the app and avoid the complications of each component having its own state. Additionally, we will use Bootstrap components and custom CSS to style our app.

Other: Git will be used for version control. During the later stages of our project, we will use Google Analytics to collect useful data regarding user interactions. Moreover, Slack will be our primary communication tool. Also, we will use Visual Studio Code as our primary code editor because it is very light weight and has a wide variety of extensions that will boost productivity. Postman will be used to interact with and debug our API endpoints.

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Teo Deleanu
Teo Deleanu

Developer at AppSeed

May 20, 2019

Needs adviceonReactReactNode.jsNode.jsDockerDocker

What is the best way to increase your income as a freelancer in 2019? What frameworks should be the best to learn? React Node.js Docker Kubernetes Sequelize Mongoose MongoDB ExpressJS hapi Based on trends I've picked up a JS full stack. If you need to work under startups you may replace React with Vue.js . If you want to work in outsourcing Angular+ may be better.

What is your opinion?

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