CHAPTER 7
Boosting Your Node.js Data with the Mongoose ORM Library
Mongoose is a fully developed object relational mapping (ORM) library for Node.js and MongoDB. The advantages of using ORM are many and go far beyond code organization or the ease of development. Typical ORM is a crucial piece of modern software engineering.
Mongoose abstracts everything from the database, and the application code interacts only with objects and their methods. ORM also allows specifying relationships between different types of objects and putting business logic (related to those objects) in the classes.
In addition, Mongoose has built-in validation and type casting ...
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