Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Mongoose schema model for Post

To define the structure for storing details about each post and to store each post as a document in a collection in MongoDB, we will define the Mongoose schema for a post in server/models/post.model.js. The Post schema will store a post's text content, a photo, a reference to the user who posted, time of creation, likes on the post from users, and comments on the post by users. The schema will store these details in the following fields, each defined as shown with the corresponding code.

• Post text: text will be a required field that needs to be provided by the user on new post creation from the view:

text: {  type: String,  required: 'Text is required'}

• Post photo: photo will be uploaded from the user's local ...