Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Defining a Course model

The Course schema—defined in server/models/course.model.js—will have simple fields to store course details, along with with an image, a category, whether the course is published or not, and a reference to the user who created the course. The code defining the course fields are given in the following list with explanations:

• Course name and description: name and description fields will have string types, with name as a required field:

name: {     type: String,     trim: true,     required: 'Name is required' },description: {     type: String,     trim: true },

• Course image: The image field will store the course image file to be uploaded by the user as binary data in the MongoDB database:

image: {     data: Buffer,  contentType: String ...