How to write a Mongoose model in ES6 / ES2015

Question

I want to write my mongoose model in ES6. Basically replace module.exports and other ES5 things wherever possible. Here is what I have.

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Answer 1

I'm not sure why you're attempting to use ES6 classes in this case. mongoose.Schema is a constructor to create new schemas. When you do

var Blacklist = mongoose.Schema({});

you are creating a new schema using that constructor. The constructor is designed so that behaves exactly like

var Blacklist = new mongoose.Schema({});

What you're alternative,

class Blacklist extends mongoose.Schema {

does is create a subclass of the schema class, but you never actually instantiate it anywhere

You'd need to do

export default mongoose.model('Blacklist', new Blacklist());

but I wouldn't really recommend it. There's nothing "more ES6y" about what you are doing. The previous code is perfectly reasonable and is the recommended API for Mongoose.