Skip timestamps middleware for certain updates in Mongoose

Question

My application uses Mongoose and has a schema that uses the timestamps option:

var fooSchema = new Schema({
    name: String,
}, {
    timestamps: true,
});
         


        

Answer 1

What i can get is you are automatically updating the dateTime of updated_at field. You must be passing a default value for the updated_at in your schema, just remove that default field.

For example.

var fooSchema = new Schema({
    name: String,
}, {
    updated_at:{
         type: Date,
         default: Date.now
    }
});
mongoose.model('Foo', fooSchema);

Remove the default field from updated_at and your schema will look like this.

var fooSchema = new Schema({
    name: String,
}, {
    updated_at: Date
});
mongoose.model('Foo', fooSchema);