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monguurl

v0.1.0

Published

Automatically generate a unique and url-friendly alias/slug and store it in Mongoose

Downloads

49

Readme

Monguurl

Automatically generate a unique and url-friendly alias/slug and store it in Mongoose. Assumes you have a field on which the alias is based on. For posts it's common to generate an alias from the title.

Example

Define your model like this:

var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
    monguurl = require('monguurl');

Post = new mongoose.schema({
  title: { type: String },
  slug: { type: string, index: { unique: true } }
});

Post.plugin(monguurl({
  source: 'title',
  target: 'slug'
}));

mongoose.model('Post', Post);

And then if you for example create a new document like this:

mongoose.model('Post').create({
  title: 'This is so Äwesome!'
});

The slug will be automatically generated and stored in the database:

{
  "_id": "09876543...",
  "title": "This is so Äwesome!",
  "slug": "this-is-so-awesome"
}

Create another identical document and it will be stored like this:

{
  "_id": "09876543...",
  "title": "This is so Äwesome!",
  "slug": "this-is-so-awesome-2"
}

The ending number will increase to "-100", then it will be "-100-2". This is to avoid ruining intentional numbers such as "It's over 9000" or "A day in 2013". It's unlikely enough that either such a title is repeated or that the same title is used more than a hundred times anyway.

Also note that theoretically this plugin can be used without a source/title, if such behavior is desired. Just set the target field when creating the document and any source will be ignored.

Installation

  • npm install monguurl --save

Documentation

  • monguurl(options)
    Creates the mongoose plugin.
    • options.source (string) Path to the field which to generate the alias from.
      Default: 'title'
    • options.target (string) path to the field where the alias should be stored.
      Default: 'alias'
  • urlProof(alias)
    Method used to make a string url-friendly. If you want a different method, just replace it.