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

Sorry for necroposting but this can be still interesting for someone. I think Typegoose provides more modern and elegant way to define models

Here is an example from the docs:

import { prop, Typegoose, ModelType, InstanceType } from 'typegoose';
import * as mongoose from 'mongoose';

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/test');

class User extends Typegoose {
    @prop()
    name?: string;
}

const UserModel = new User().getModelForClass(User);

// UserModel is a regular Mongoose Model with correct types
(async () => {
    const u = new UserModel({ name: 'JohnDoe' });
    await u.save();
    const user = await UserModel.findOne();

    // prints { _id: 59218f686409d670a97e53e0, name: 'JohnDoe', __v: 0 }
    console.log(user);
})();

For an existing connection scenario, you can use as the following (which may be more likely in the real situations and uncovered in the docs):

import { prop, Typegoose, ModelType, InstanceType } from 'typegoose';
import * as mongoose from 'mongoose';

const conn = mongoose.createConnection('mongodb://localhost:27017/test');

class User extends Typegoose {
    @prop()
    name?: string;
}

// Notice that the collection name will be 'users':
const UserModel = new User().getModelForClass(User, {existingConnection: conn});

// UserModel is a regular Mongoose Model with correct types
(async () => {
    const u = new UserModel({ name: 'JohnDoe' });
    await u.save();
    const user = await UserModel.findOne();

    // prints { _id: 59218f686409d670a97e53e0, name: 'JohnDoe', __v: 0 }
    console.log(user);
})();