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Databases

Posted by Jay V
Jay V
7,566 Points

Where collection name is defined?

In this lecture didn't specify collection name "animals" anywhere. I'm confused how MongoDB took that name for the collection.

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

From the video transcripts starting at 7:04

Let's create a model called Animal. We do this by using the mongoose method model. Passing in the name of the model, Animal, and the schema that defines animals. Mongoose will pluralize the string we supply as the first parameter here. This will map to a collection in the mongodb database whenever we save the document. In this case the model will create or map to a collection named animals.

Jay V
Jay V
7,566 Points

Ok, Understood now, Thank you.