A quick guide to the best practice for creating, maintaining and using a default Mongoose connection.
The connection is managed in /model/db.js. It is opened at application start, and closed on application termination. In this file we also monitor the connected, error and disconnected events.
A sample Mongoose schema is defined and model built in /model/team.js.
All of the relevant code is in /model/db.js.
app.js is just a minimal Node.js skeleton, rendering a page defined in pages.js. pages.js brings in Mongoose and the model defined in /model/team.js.
This only requires Mongoose in the application, as noted in package.json. If you download this you can install Mongoose into the application by running npm install
More detailed discussion around using this is available on my blog: theholmesoffice.com/mongoose-connection-best-practice/
This link is now dead as the domain was poached from me 🤦♂️
Thanks to 3willows for spotting it and providing the Web Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140330182958/http://theholmesoffice.com/mongoose-connection-best-practice/
It doesn't show my nice original formatting, but you can probably figure it out.