MEAN Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's follow these steps to embed an author model as a sub-document into our blog post schema:

1. First, we will create a new /models/authors.js model configuration:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');var Schema = mongoose.Schema;var authorSchema = new Schema({  firstName:  String,  lastName: String,  email: { type: String, required: true }});module.exports = mongoose.model('author', authorSchema);

2. We will include our new Author model into our /models/posts.js schema configuration as a new author property:

...Author = require('./author');...var postSchema = new Schema({  title:  { type: String, index: 'text', required: true, minlength: 5, maxlength: 64 },  content: { type: String, required: true, validate: [ markdownValidator,  ...