Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Defining a Product model

Products will be stored in a product collection in the database. To implement this, we will add a Mongoose model to define a Product model for storing the details of each product. This model will be defined in server/models/product.model.js, and the implementation will be similar to other Mongoose model implementations covered in previous chapters, like the Course model defined in Chapter 6, Building a Web-Based Classroom Application.

For MERN Marketplace, we will keep the product schema simple with support for fields such as product name, description, image, category, quantity, price, created at, updated at, and a reference to the shop. The code defining the product fields in the product schema are given in the ...