Mongoose Not Saving Data

Question

I am having trouble with a simple query on my database. Following this tutorial: https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-restful-api-using-node-and-express-4 when Model.find() i

Answer 1

If you are using a manual tool like Postman to test your app, you must also put quotes around the key names in the body of your request, like {"key": "some string"}.

If you just put {key: "some string"} then the whole key/value pair is ignored when the document is saved to the database.