Mongoose the Typescript way…?

Question

Trying to implement a Mongoose model in Typescript. Scouring the Google has revealed only a hybrid approach (combining JS and TS). How would one go about implementing the

Answer 1

Another alternative if you want to detach your type definitions and the database implementation.

import {IUser} from './user.ts';
import * as mongoose from 'mongoose';

type UserType = IUser & mongoose.Document;
const User = mongoose.model('User', new mongoose.Schema({
    userName  : String,
    password  : String,
    /* etc */
}));

Inspiration from here: https://github.com/Appsilon/styleguide/wiki/mongoose-typescript-models