Tongoose

📘 Auto-generate TypeScript interfaces from Mongoose schemas!

Usage

• Remotely

npx tongoose ./path/to/mongoose/model(s/)

• Locally (recommended)

npm install --global tongoose
# or 
yarn global add tongoose

and run

tongoose ./path/to/mongoose/model(s/)

That's it! Now just integrate the generated interfaces with your Mongoose Schemas!

Don't know how? Head over to the From 0 to hero section - you'll set up a sample TypeScript + Babel project & will learn how to integrate TypeScript with mongoose Schemas!

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Table of contents

• Learn all the basics in just 5 minutes or so while following along!

  • set up a TypeScript + Babel project,
  • create mongoose schemas,
  • generate TS type definitions / interfaces using tongoose,
  • integrate them in your schemas
  • (and test them!)

• The Roadmap

• How to contribute

• Developers

• License

From 0 to hero (you'll love it)

Note - the code is available at /tongoose/TypeScript-Babel-Starter

Warning - this is currently out-of-date. We'll update this tutorial shortly.

Set up a simple TypeScript + Babel project

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Babel-Starter.git
cd TypeScript-Babel-Starter

• Install dependencies

npm i mongoose
npm i --save-dev @types/node @types/mongoose @types/mongodb

• buckle up

rm src/index.ts
mkdir -pv src/models/
touch src/models/User.ts

• open src/models/User.ts file in your favorite text editor

Create a mongoose schema

// src/models/User.ts
import mongoose from "mongoose";
 
const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    username: String,
    email: { type: String, required: true },
    password: { type: String, required: true },
});
 
const User = mongoose.model("User", UserSchema, "users");
 
export = User;

• Great. Now install tongoose & take a look at the --help message:

npm i -g tongoose
tongoose

Usage: tongoose ./path/to/models/ [--opt [arg]]
 
Options:
  -s, --src, --source  [required] [selected by default] relative path to
                       mongoose models' directory
 
  -o, --output         [auto=source/index.d.ts] relative path for index.d.ts
                       type definition output
 
  -n, --noFormat       [auto=false] do not format the type definition files
 
  -d, --debug          [auto=false] enables debugging - generates .tongoose/
                       directory with separate type definition, raw & clean
                       json files for each schema
 
  -v, --version        Show version number
  -h, --help           Show help
 
Examples:
  tongoose ./src/models
  tongoose ./src/models --noFormat
  tongoose --help

Generate the type definition file!

• Run tongoose with the path to our src/models/ directory

tongoose src/models/

⚡️ Tongoose finished
📂 Created `.tongoose` directory for manual debugging (you can safely delete it)
📘 Main `index.d.ts` file placed in 👉 `src/models/index.d.ts`

• open the generated src/models/index.d.ts file & take a look!

import mongoose from "mongoose"
import { ObjectId } from "bson"; // `npm i --save-dev @types/mongodb`
 
// Notice the difference between `IUserModel` & `IUser`!
export interface IUserModel extends IUser, mongoose.Document {}
export interface IUser {
    username?: string;
    email: string;
    password: string;
}

Such Success! 😱 Much Greatness! 😍 Now let's try to apply & use the generated type interface

• head back to src/models/User.ts
• make the following changes:

// src/models/User.ts
import mongoose from "mongoose";
+import { IUserModel } from './index.d';
 
const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    username: String,
    email: { type: String, required: true },
    password: { type: String, required: true },
});
 
-const User = mongoose.model("User", UserSchema, "users");
+const User = mongoose.model<IUserModel>("User", UserSchema, "users");
 
export = User;

Awesome! Now let's test it!

• Create a src/test.ts file

touch src/test.ts

• open it & add the following code:

// src/test.ts
import User = require("./models/User");
 
const user = new User({});

• Start typing user<dot> and see what comes up!

Plot twist:

• You can see the email field right at the bottom together with mongoose.Document's fields. Everything (hopefully) worked great!

• Congratulations!

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Our Roadmap

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repo, modify it & submit a pull request!

The Roadmap is a good place to start 😃

Developers

• Kipras Melnikovas - author - /sarpik 😎

License

MIT