Chapter 1, Introducing Mongoose to the Technology Stack, takes a look at the Node.js, MongoDB, and Express technology stack and introduces Mongoose and shows where it fits in.

Chapter 2, Establishing a Database Connection, covers the different methods of creating database connections with Mongoose, including how and when to use them.

Chapter 3, Schemas and Models, introduces the two cornerstones of Mongoose, covering how to create them and how they relate to the data.

Chapter 4, Interacting with Data – An Introduction, explains how Mongoose provides methods for easily interacting with data, setting the scene for the following four chapters.

Chapter 5, Interacting with Data – Creation, covers the ways we can use Mongoose to create data and save it to the database.

Chapter 6, Interacting with Data – Reading, Querying, and Finding, covers the ways we can use Mongoose to find the data we want by querying the database and reading the data back into Model instances. It shows how to use the built-in methods, and also how to extend Mongoose to run the specific queries that you may want.

Chapter 7, Interacting with Data – Updating, covers the ways we can use Mongoose to change existing data, including the built-in helper methods, and a more robust approach for data integrity.

Chapter 8, Interacting with Data – Deleting, covers the ways we can use Mongoose to delete documents from the database.

Chapter 9, Validating Data, looks at maintaining data integrity, covering the validators built in to Mongoose and explaining how to add custom validation.

Chapter 10, Complex Schemas, introduces the concepts of population and sub-documents to allow richer data models, mimicking some of the functionality found with traditional SQL JOIN statements.

Chapter 11, Plugins – Reusing Code, introduces the Mongoose plugin architecture, covering how to create your own re-usable plugins to remove repetition in your schemas.

All you need for this book is a computer capable of running Node.js, administrator/installation permissions, and a text editor.

This book is for people who are interested in building applications in Node.js. If you want to build applications quickly with a robust and manageable data structure then this book is for you! No experience with Node is necessary, but some basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript would be useful. The focus of the book is on the power of Mongoose, so experienced Node.js developers will also find it useful.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "You may find that your installation of Express has already created the file routes/user.js—this is fine, you can just open it and delete the contents."

A block of code is set as follows:

var userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String,
  email: {type: String, unique:true},
  createdOn: Date,
  modifiedOn: { type: Date, default: Date.now },
  lastLogin: Date

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

var express = require('express')
  , db = require('./model/db')
  , routes = require('./routes')
  , user = require('./routes/user')
  , project = require('./routes/project')

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install npm

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "If it finds it, MongoDB (not Mongoose) will return an E11000 error.".

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