v3.0 has been released 🎉 refer to breaking changes below when upgrading from v2.x.

Features

• User friendly API design, inspired by SailsJS
• Simple CRUD operations, with simple but fast model population
• Model validation controlled by your model definitions
• Normalized error responses objects ready for client consumption
• Custom error messages can be defined in your model definitions
• Blacklist sensitive fields once in your model definition, or per operation
• Model methods can accept data in bracket (multipart/form) and dot notation, you can also mix these together
• Automatic Mongo index creation
• Documents validate, insert and update 7-10x faster than Mongoose

Why Monastery over Mongoose?

• User friendly API designed for busy agencies, allowing you to quickly build projects without distractions
• Model schema and configurations are all defined within a single object (model definition)
• You can blacklist/exclude sensitive model fields in the model definition for each CRUD operation
• Model population uses a single aggregation call instead of multiple queries for faster responses
• Errors throw normalized error objects that contain the model, field, error message etc, handy in the client

Install

This repository is distributed with NPM. After installing NPM, you can install Monastery via:

$ npm install --save monastery

Usage

import monastery from 'monastery'

// Initialize a monastery manager
const db = monastery('localhost/mydb')

// Define a model
db.model('user', {
  fields: {
    name: { type: 'string' },
    pets: [{ type: 'string' }],
    address: { city: { type: 'string', minLength: 10 } },
    points: [[{ type: 'number' }]]
  }
})

// Insert some data
try {
  const newUser = await db.user.insert({
    data: {
      name: 'Martin Luther',
      pets: ['sparky', 'tiny'],
      address: { city: 'Eisleben' },
      points: [[1, 5], [3, 1]]
    }
  })
} catch (errs) {
  // [{
  //   detail: "Value needs to be at least 10 characters long.",
  //   status: "400",
  //   title: "address.city",
  //   meta: {
  //     field: "city",
  //     model: "user",
  //     rule: "minLength"
  //   }
  // }]
}

Version Compatibility

You can view MongoDB’s compatibility table here, and see all of MongoDB NodeJS Driver releases here

Monastery	Mongo NodeJS Driver	MongoDB Server	Node
3.x	5.9.x	>=3.6 <=7.x	>=14.x <=latest
2.x	3.7.x	>=2.6 <=6.x	>=4.x <=14.x

v3 Breaking Changes

• Removed callback functions on all model methods, you can use the returned promise instead
• model.update() now returns the following res._output property: { acknowledged: true, matchedCount: 1, modifiedCount: 1, upsertedCount: 0, upsertedId: null } instead of { n: 1, nModified: 1, ok: 1 }
• model.remove() now returns { acknowledged: true, deletedCount: 1 }, instead of { results: {n:1, ok:1} }
• model._indexes() now returns collection._indexes() not collection._indexInformation()
• db.model.* moved to db.models.*
• db.models(path, waitForIndex) changed to db.models(path, { waitForIndex })
• db._client moved to db.client
• db._db moved to db.db
• db.catch/then() moved to db.onError/db.onOpen()
• next() is now redundant when returning promises from hooks, e.g. afterFind: [async (data) => {...}]
• deep paths in data, e.g. books[].title are now validated, and don’t replace the whole object, e.g. books

v2 Breaking Changes

• changed model.messages, array paths now must include ‘.$’
• updated AWS to client v3 (requires ES6 features, NodeJs >=14)

Roadmap

• Add Aggregate
• Add FindOneAndUpdate
• Add beforeInsertUpdate / afterInsertUpdate
• Bug: Setting an object literal on an ID field (‘model’) saves successfully
• Blacklist false removes all blacklisting
• Add project to insert/update/validate
• Whitelisting a parent will remove any previously blacklisted children
• Blacklist/project works the same across find/insert/update/validate
• Automatic embedded document ids/createdAt/updatedAt fields
• Ability to change ACL default on the manager
• Public db.arrayWithSchema method
• Added support for array population
• MongoClient instances can now be reused when initializing the manager, e.g. monastery(mongoClient), handy for migrate-mongo
• Change population warnings into errors
• Global after/before hooks
• Before hooks can receive a data array, remove this
• Docs: Make the implicit ID query conversion more apparent
• Split away from Monk so we can update the MongoDB NodeJS Driver version
• Add a warning if an invalid model is referenced in jthe schema
• Remove leading forward slashes from custom image paths (AWS adds this as a seperate folder)
• Double check await db.model.remove({ query: idfromparam }) doesnt cause issues for null, undefined or ‘’, but continue to allow {}
• Can’t insert/update model id (maybe we can allow this and add _id to default insert/update blacklists)
• timstamps are blacklisted by default (instead of the timestamps opt), and can be switched off via blacklisting
• Allow rules on image types, e.g. required
• Test importing of models
• Docs: model.methods
• Convert hooks to promises
• added model.count()
• Typescript support
• Add soft remove plugin
• Added deep path validation support for updates
• Added option skipHooks

Debugging

This package uses debug which allows you to set the level of output via the DEBUG environment variable. Using DEBUG will override the manager’s logLevel option, e.g. monastery('...', { logLevel: 3 }).

$ DEBUG=monastery:error # level 1, shows errors
$ DEBUG=monastery:warn  # level 2, shows warnings and depreciation notices
$ DEBUG=monastery:info  # level 3, shows operation information

Contributing

All pull requests are welcome. To run isolated tests with Jest:

npm run dev -- -t 'Model indexes'

Special Thanks

Jerome Gravel-Niquet

License

Copyright 2024 Ricky Boyce. Code released under the MIT license.