Mongoose Model.find is not a function?

Question

Spent hours trying to figure this out - I\'m adding a new Model to my app but it\'s failing with \"TypeError: List.find is not a function\". I have another model, Items, th

Answer 1

To import model instance and call method, for example

modelfile.js

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const NotificationSchema = new Schema({
    count: Number,
    color: String,
    icon: String,
    name: String,
    date: {type: Date, default: Date.now },
    read: Boolean
});

module.exports = mongoose.model('notifications', NotificationSchema);

queryfile.js

const Notification = require('./models/model-notifications');

function totalInsert(online) {
  let query = { name: 'viewed count' };
  Notification.find(query,(err,result)=>{
    if(!err){
      totalCount.count = online + result.length;
      totalCount.save((err,result)=>{
        if(!err){
          io.emit('total visitor', totalCount);
        }
      });
    }
  });
}