mongoose-data-seed

Seed mongodb with data using mongoose models

Install

npm install --save mongoose-data-seed
md-seed init

md-seed init will ask you to choose a folder for your seeders.

md-seed init will create the seeders folder, generate md-seed-config.js and update your package.json.

Use

Generate seeder file

md-seed g users

Run all seeders

md-seed run

Or run specific seeders

md-seed run users posts comments

Options

Drop the database before seeding

md-seed run --dropdb

Seeder Example

import { Seeder } from 'mongoose-data-seed';
import { User } from '../server/models';

const data = [
  {
    email: '[email protected]',
    password: '123123',
    passwordConfirmation: '123123',
    isAdmin: true
  },
  {
    email: '[email protected]',
    password: '123123',
    passwordConfirmation: '123123',
    isAdmin: false
  }
];

class UsersSeeder extends Seeder {
  async shouldRun() {
    return User.countDocuments()
      .exec()
      .then(count => count === 0);
  }

  async run() {
    return User.create(data);
  }
}

export default UsersSeeder;

md-seed-config.js

md-seed expecting to get 3 values from md-seed-config.js

1. seedersList - A key/value list of all your seeders, md-seed will run your seeders as they ordered in the list.
2. connect - Connect to mongodb implementation (should return promise).
3. dropdb - Drop/Clear the database implementation (should return promise).

Example

import mongoose from 'mongoose';

import Users from './seeders/users.seeder';
import Posts from './seeders/posts.seeder';
import Comments from './seeders/comments.seeder';

const mongoURL = process.env.MONGO_URL || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dbname';

/**
 * Seeders List
 * order is important
 * @type {Object}
 */
export const seedersList = {
  Users,
  Posts,
  Comments,
};
/**
 * Connect to mongodb implementation
 * @return {Promise}
 */
export const connect = async () => await mongoose.connect(mongoURL, { useNewUrlParser: true });
/**
 * Drop/Clear the database implementation
 * @return {Promise}
 */
export const dropdb = async () => mongoose.connection.db.dropDatabase();

Configurations

mongoose-data-seed configurations will get loaded from the mdSeed field in your package.json file.

Field | Default Value | Description -----------------------|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------- seedersFolder | './seeders' | Path for your seeders-folder, seeders will be generated into this folder. customSeederTemplate | undefined | Path to a custom template file to generate your seeders from.

Examples

1. md-seed-example

License

MIT