Mastering MongoDB 4.x - Second Edition

Best practices

Some best practices for using Doctrine with MongoDB are as follows:

• Don't use unnecessary cascading.
• Don't use unnecessary life cycle events.
• Don't use special characters such as non-ASCII ones in class, field, table, or column names, as Doctrine is not Unicode-safe yet.
• Initialize collection references in the model's constructor.
• Constrain relationships between objects as much as possible. Avoid bidirectional associations between models and eliminate the ones that are not needed. This helps with performance, loose coupling, and produces simpler and more easily maintainable code.