freeCodeCamp/guide/english/certifications/apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/create-a-model/index.md

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Create a Model

Create a Model

Creating Schema

See the Mongoose docs first where is a lot of useful stuff. When you are building schema you can use either of three options for name validation

name: String
name: {type: String}
name: {type: String, required: true} //preferred

For array of favoriteFoods here is the validation:

favoriteFoods: [{ type: String }]

Creating a Model

Now that we have the schema of our model, we can actually create a model by:

var Model  = mongoose.model('Model', modelSchema);