How to declare collection name and model name in mongoose

Question

I have 3 kind of records,

1)Categories,
2)Topics  and
3)Articles 

In my mongodb, i have only 1 colection named \'categories\' in which i stroe

Answer 1

Try-

mongoose.model('category', CategorySchema, 'categories');
mongoose.model('topics', TopicSchema, 'categories');
mongoose.model('articles', ArticlesSchema, 'categories');

As mentioned in docs: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#index_Mongoose-model

Mongoose#model(name, [schema], [collection], [skipInit])

Defines a model or retrieves it.

Parameters:

• 1st param - name model name
• 2nd param - [schema] schema name
• 3rd param - [collection] collection name (optional, induced from model name)
• 4th param - [skipInit] whether to skip initialization (defaults to false)

See - https://stackoverflow.com/a/14454102/3896066