MEAN Cookbook

Mongoose Document API

Mongoose's document API provides tools for working with retrieved documents from the model API. These APIs are in some ways very similar to the model API but are scoped to the specific document:

Property	Example	Description
increment	post.increment();	Will increment a document's version upon save.
model	post.model('Author')	Returns another model instance.
remove	post.remove();	Removes this document from the db.
save	post.save();	Saves this document in its current state to MongoDB.
$where	post.$where('this.title !== "foobar"').exec(function (error, docs) {});	Allows you to provide a JavaScript expression as a query to MongoDB.
base	post.base;	If using discriminators, this is an instance of the base model ...