This plugin allows you to autoincrement any field on any mongoose schema that you wish.
npm install @alec016/mongoose-autoincrement> Mongoose plugin that auto-increments any ID field on your schema every time a document is saved.
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> npm install @alec016/mongoose-autoincrement
Once you have the plugin installed it is very simple to use. Just get reference to it, initialize it by passing in your
mongoose connection and pass autoIncrement.plugin to the plugin() function on your schema.
> Note: You only need to initialize MAI once.
> Note: This plugin is not compatible with nextjs ( app folder [ experimental functionality ] )
> Note: This plugin is compatible with no experimental folder of nextjs
> Note: This plugin is not compatible with any no static serverside framework
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```ts
const mongoose = require('mongoose'),
Schema = mongoose.Schema,
autoIncrement = require('@alec016/mongoose-autoincrement');
mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/myDatabase");
const connection = mongoose.connection
autoIncrement.initialize(connection);
const bookSchema = new Schema({
author: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Author' },
title: String,
genre: String,
publishDate: Date
});
bookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, 'Book');
const Book = connection.model('Book', bookSchema);
``
That's it. Now you can create book entities at will and they will have an id field added of type Number and will automatically increment with each new document. Even declaring references is easy, just remember to change the reference property's type to Number instead of ObjectId if the referenced model is also using the plugin.
``ts
const authorSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String
});
const bookSchema = new Schema({
author: { type: Number, ref: 'Author' },
title: String,
genre: String,
publishDate: Date
});
bookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, 'Book');
authorSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, 'Author');
``
``ts``
bookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, { model: 'Book', field: 'bookId' });
``ts``
bookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, {
model: 'Book',
field: 'bookId',
startAt: 100,
incrementBy: 100
});
Your first book document would have a bookId equal to 100. Your second book document would have a bookId equal to 200, and so on.
``ts
const Book = connection.model('Book', bookSchema);
Book.nextCount(function(err, count) {
// count === 0 -> true
const book = new Book();
book.save(function(err) {
// book._id === 0 -> true
book.nextCount(function(err, count) {
// count === 1 -> true
});
});
});
``
nextCount is both a static method on the model (Book.nextCount(...)) and an instance method on the document (book.nextCount(...)).
``ts
bookSchema.plugin(autoIncrement.plugin, {
model: 'Book',
field: 'bookId',
startAt: 100
});
const Book = connection.model('Book', bookSchema),
book = new Book();
book.save(function (err) {
// book._id === 100 -> true
book.nextCount(function(err, count) {
// count === 101 -> true
book.resetCount(function(err, nextCount) {
// nextCount === 100 -> true
});
});
});
```