Advanced Database Operations with Mongoose: Virtuals, Population, and Indexing

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Erasmus Kotoka

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Taking your MongoDB game to the next level? Mongoose offers powerful tools for optimizing data handling and structuring complex relationships effortlessly! Here’s a peek at what these advanced features can do:

Virtuals: Create virtual fields that don’t persist in MongoDB but provide computed values on the fly, making data manipulation cleaner and more dynamic.

Population: Seamlessly connect documents with populate, allowing you to reference documents in different collections as if they were joined tables—ideal for building rich, relational structures in NoSQL!

Indexing: Speed up your queries by indexing frequently accessed fields. With efficient indexes, you can handle large datasets with blazing-fast retrieval times.

Unlock the full potential of MongoDB with these Mongoose features and see the difference in your application’s efficiency!

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Erasmus Kotoka