How to get rid of Error: “OverwriteModelError: Cannot overwrite `undefined` model once compiled.”?

Question

I have a common method for updating document of any collection in MongoDB?

The following code is in file name Deleter.js

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Answer 1

I try to avoid globals as much as possible, since everything is by reference, and things can get messy. My solution

model.js

  try {
    if (mongoose.model('collectionName')) return mongoose.model('collectionName');
  } catch(e) {
    if (e.name === 'MissingSchemaError') {
       var schema = new mongoose.Schema({ name: 'abc });
       return mongoose.model('collectionName', schema);
    }
  }