Models

Models Provide Clean Interface to interact with your MongoDB database through moongoose library.

Creating Models

Models Can be created in two ways :

Through Command Line

Models Can Be Created From Command Line : First Run -

node artisan

then

make:model <Name-of-your-model>

We don't have any restrictions on naming your Models, But the preferred way of creating Models is - NameOfYourModel for example:-

make:model Users

This will automatically create your model in app\models Directory and migration in app\database\migrations directory

Manually

Models can be created manually also-

1. Create a file name of your choice in app\models
2. Create Migration in app\database\migrations example: - You have created a model - User.js

       const mongoose = require("mongoose");
   
   

3. Now Create a schema in app\database\migrations directory example:- You have created create_Users_model.js in app\database\migrations
4. Now in your app\models\User.js

       const mongoose = require("mongoose");
       const UsersObject = require("../../database/migrations/create_Users_model");
   
       const Users = mongoose.model("Users", new mongoose.Schema(UsersObject));
   
       module.exports = Users;
   

5. Done !!! Enjoy !

of course if you create a model from CLI, we will take care of everything.