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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from   JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788624701
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JSON 2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. AJAX Requests with JSON 4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests 5. Debugging JSON 6. Building the Carousel Application 7. Alternate Implementations of JSON 8. Introduction to hapi.js 9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB 10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON 11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data 12. Case Studies in JSON 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

JSON-based schemas in MongoDB


There is a possibility that we may need the database's schema before the application development gets started. Or what if we want to set the data types for all the datasets with all kind of validations just like MySQL?

At this point, we are planning to structure and validate our NoSQL data. We are moving toward finding a framework that provides a wrapper around mongodb and which can yield such features with trusted community support.

Mongoose is a leading third-party framework that provides all kind of schema-based validations, virtual properties, and more.

Let us go through an approach for how JSON-based schemas are prepared and validated using mongoose:

  1. Install mongoose via the following npm command: npm install mongoose --save
  2. As we are planning to implement mongoose in our application, we are going to use the wrapper methods provided by mongoose to connect to mongoDB

Not a big modification, simply comment the mongodb client from plugins.js and include the following...

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