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How do you use Mongoose without defining a schema?

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Can we create Mongoose model without schema?

Its not possible anymore. You can use Mongoose with the collections that have schema and the node driver or another mongo module for those schemaless ones.

Why does Mongoose need a schema?

Mongoose Schema vs. Model. A Mongoose model is a wrapper on the Mongoose schema. A Mongoose schema defines the structure of the document, default values, validators, etc., whereas a Mongoose model provides an interface to the database for creating, querying, updating, deleting records, etc.

Is Mongoose schema based?

Everything in Mongoose starts with a Schema. Each schema maps to a MongoDB collection and defines the shape of the documents within that collection.

Can I use Mongoose without installing MongoDB?

So it is fair to imply you need to install it. However, given Mongoose wraps the mongodb native driver and that does not require MongoDB installation, I would expect that you do not need to have it installed when not using localhost.


I think this is what are you looking for Mongoose Strict

option: strict

The strict option, (enabled by default), ensures that values added to our model instance that were not specified in our schema do not get saved to the db.

Note: Do not set to false unless you have good reason.

    var thingSchema = new Schema({..}, { strict: false });
    var Thing = mongoose.model('Thing', thingSchema);
    var thing = new Thing({ iAmNotInTheSchema: true });
    thing.save() // iAmNotInTheSchema is now saved to the db!!

Actually "Mixed" (Schema.Types.Mixed) mode appears to do exactly that in Mongoose...

it accepts a schema-less, freeform JS object - so whatever you can throw at it. It seems you have to trigger saves on that object manually afterwards, but it seems like a fair tradeoff.

Mixed

An "anything goes" SchemaType, its flexibility comes at a trade-off of it being harder to maintain. Mixed is available either through Schema.Types.Mixed or by passing an empty object literal. The following are equivalent:

var Any = new Schema({ any: {} });
var Any = new Schema({ any: Schema.Types.Mixed });

Since it is a schema-less type, you can change the value to anything else you like, but Mongoose loses the ability to auto detect and save those changes. To "tell" Mongoose that the value of a Mixed type has changed, call the .markModified(path) method of the document passing the path to the Mixed type you just changed.

person.anything = { x: [3, 4, { y: "changed" }] };
person.markModified('anything');
person.save(); // anything will now get saved
  • Mongoose Schema Types

Hey Chris, take a look at Mongous. I was having the same issue with mongoose, as my Schemas change extremely frequently right now in development. Mongous allowed me to have the simplicity of Mongoose, while being able to loosely define and change my 'schemas'. I chose to simply build out standard JavaScript objects and store them in the database like so

function User(user){
  this.name = user.name
, this.age = user.age
}

app.post('save/user', function(req,res,next){
  var u = new User(req.body)
  db('mydb.users').save(u)
  res.send(200)
  // that's it! You've saved a user
});

Far more simple than Mongoose, although I do believe you miss out on some cool middleware stuff like "pre". I didn't need any of that though. Hope this helps!!!


Here is the details description: [https://www.meanstack.site/2020/01/save-data-to-mongodb-without-defining.html][1]

    const express = require('express')()
    const mongoose = require('mongoose')
    const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
    const Schema = mongoose.Schema

    express.post('/', async (req, res) => {
        // strict false will allow you to save document which is coming from the req.body
        const testCollectionSchema = new Schema({}, { strict: false })
        const TestCollection = mongoose.model('test_collection', testCollectionSchema)
        let body = req.body
        const testCollectionData = new TestCollection(body)
        await testCollectionData.save()
        return res.send({
            "msg": "Data Saved Successfully"
        })
    })


  [1]: https://www.meanstack.site/2020/01/save-data-to-mongodb-without-defining.html