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MEAN Cookbook

You're reading from   MEAN Cookbook The meanest set of MEAN stack solutions around

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286573
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 McClay McClay
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Preface 1. Working with Angular 4 FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your User Interface 3. Working with Data 4. Using Express Web Server 5. REST APIs and Authentication 6. Cloud Service Integrations 7. MongoDB and Mongoose 8. Relationships 9. Build Systems and Optimizations 10. Debugging 11. Automated Testing 12. Whats new in Angular 4

Working with data validations and virtuals in Mongoose

Before we start dealing with relationships between different models, let's cover how to build relationships between the properties of our model and Mongoose.

One of the most common property relationships is validation of what we are saving in our model. This relationship between the value input to the model, and what the model's schema is predefined to allow, helps us by providing an easy to use mechanism to make sure only valid data is saved to MongoDB. Mongoose provides a rich and extensible validation toolkit for handling virtually any type of validation you would want to perform, before persisting it to the database. Validation errors can also be returned in API responses to provide feedback when mistakes are made from the client.

Another powerful feature for extending the capabilities of our models is the use...

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