Mongoose always returning an empty array NodeJS

Question

I have tried using find and findOne and both are not returning a document. find is returning an empty array while findOne

Answer 1

The call to mongoose.model establishes the name of the collection the model is tied to, with the default being the pluralized, lower-cased model name. So with your code, that would be 'models'. To use the model with the files collection, change that line to:

var Model = mongoose.model("Model", fileSchema, "files");

or

var Model = mongoose.model("file", fileSchema);