Mongoose Not Creating Indexes

Question

Trying to create MongoDB indexes. Using the Mongoose ODM and in my schema definition below I have the username field set to a unique index. The collection and document all g

Answer 1

When I hooked the index event on the model that wasn't working, I started getting an error on the console that indicated "The field 'retryWrites' is not valid for an index specification." The only place in my app that referenced 'retryWrites' was at the end of my connection string. I removed this, restarted the app, and the index rebuild was successful. I put retryWrites back in place, restarted the app, and the errors were gone. My Users collection (which had been giving me problems) was empty so when I used Postman to make a new record, I saw (with Mongo Compass Community) the new record created and the indexes now appear. I don't know what retryWrites does - and today was the first day I used it - but it seemed to be at the root of my issues.

Oh, and why did I use it? It was tacked onto a connection string I pulled from Mongo's Atlas Cloud site. It looked important. Hmm.