What is the difference between methods and statics in Mongoose?

Question

What is the difference between methods and statics?

Mongoose API defines statics as

Statics are pretty much the same as methods but allow for defini         


        

Answer 1

Think of a static like an "override" of an "existing" method. So pretty much directly from searchable documentation:

AnimalSchema.statics.search = function search (name, cb) {
   return this.where('name', new RegExp(name, 'i')).exec(cb);
}

Animal.search('Rover', function (err) {
  if (err) ...
})

And this basically puts a different signature on a "global" method, but is only applied when called for this particular model.

Hope that clears things up a bit more.