Mongoose

It is an object modeling tool for nodejs that connects MongoDB.Mongoose take the models and maps them to MongoDB database.

install required dependencies
npm install mongoose

var mongoose = require('mongoose');



/*without callback */
mongoose.connect('localhost','mydatabase');

/* with callback */ create a connection object and bind two callabcks.

var db = mongoose.connection;
db.on('open',function callback(){
//connection success
});
db.on('error',function(msg){
//connection error
});

Schema Creation :

var empSchema = mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
designation : String,
location: String,
Skills: String
});

Model Creation :

var Employee =  mongoose.model('employee',empSchema);

Saving the model :

employee.save(function(err,emp){
if(err){
//error handling
}else{
//success
}
});

Reading the model :

var Employee =  mongoose.model('employee',empSchema);

Employee.find(function(err,emp){
if(err){
//error handling
}else{
//success
}
});

Reading specific model :


Employee.find({name:'SrinivasNidadavolu'},function(err,emp){
if(err){
//error handling
}else{
//success
}
});

output:

[{name:'SrinivasNidadavolu',designation:'software engineer',location:'building number 14,Raheja Mindpsace, Hyderabad',Skills:'Java,C++,AWS,AZURE,Containers,cloud specialist'}]

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