You can disable the “__v” attribute in your Schema definitions by setting the versionKey option to false. For example: var widgetSchema = new Schema({ … attributes … }, { versionKey: false }); I don’t think you can globally disable them, but can only do it per Schema. You can read more about Schema’s options here. … Read more
You can also explicitly specify only required parameters of populate: Group .find({}) .populate({path: ‘Members’, options: { sort: { ‘created_at’: -1 } } }) Have a look at http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#document_Document-populate
This can now be done in Mongoose. MyModel.collection.drop(); Hat tip: https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/4511
As of Mongoose 4.0 you can run validators on update() and findOneAndUpdate() using the new flag runValidators: true. Mongoose 4.0 introduces an option to run validators on update() and findOneAndUpdate() calls. Turning this option on will run validators for all fields that your update() call tries to $set or $unset. For example, given OP’s Schema: … Read more
In the latest mongoose (3.8.1 at the time of writing), you do two things differently: (1) you have to pass single argument to sort(), which must be an array of constraints or just one constraint, and (2) execFind() is gone, and replaced with exec() instead. Therefore, with the mongoose 3.8.1 you’d do this: var q … Read more
You can define a unique compound index using an index call on your schema: person.index({ firstName: 1, lastName: 1}, { unique: true });