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Lesson 17. Improving Your Data Models

In this lesson, you take advantage of Mongoose’s schema- and model-creation tools. To start, you improve on your simple model and add properties to the models to restrict what data can be saved to the database. Next, you see how to associate data in a NoSQL database such as MongoDB. At the end, you build out static and instance methods for the model. You can run these methods directly on Mongoose model objects, and create the necessary controller actions for them to work with the application.

This lesson covers

• Adding validations to your models
• Creating static and instance methods for your models
• Testing your models in REPL
• Implementing data associations on multiple models

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