Patch history (audit log) & events plugin for mongoose
ts-patch-mongoose is a plugin for mongoose
I need to track changes of mongoose models and save them as patch history (audit log) in separate collection. Changes must also emit events that I can subscribe to and react in other parts of my application. I also want to omit some fields from patch history.
{
"node": "18.x || 20.x || 22.x",
"mongoose": ">=6.6.x || 7.x || 8.x",
}
- [x] Track changes in mongoose models
- [x] Save changes in a separate collection as a patch history
- [x] Emit events when a model is created, updated or deleted
- [x] Omit fields that you don't want to track in patch history
- [x] Subscribe to one/many types of event
- [x] Use events or patch history or both
- [x] Supports ESM and CommonJS
- Locally inside your project
npm install ts-patch-mongoose
pnpm add ts-patch-mongoose
yarn add ts-patch-mongoose
bun add ts-patch-mongoose
- This plugin requires mongoose
>=6.6.x || 7.x || 8.x
to be installed as a peer dependency
# For latest mongoose 6
npm install mongoose@6
pnpm add mongoose@6
yarn add mongoose@6
bun add mongoose@6
# For latest mongoose 7
npm install mongoose@7
pnpm add mongoose@7
yarn add mongoose@7
bun add mongoose@7
# For latest mongoose 8
npm install mongoose@8
pnpm add mongoose@8
yarn add mongoose@8
bun add mongoose@8
How to use it with express ts-express-swc
Create your event constants events.ts
export const BOOK_CREATED = 'book-created'
export const BOOK_UPDATED = 'book-updated'
export const BOOK_DELETED = 'book-deleted'
Create your interface IBook.ts
import type { Types } from 'mongoose'
interface IBook {
title: string
description?: string
authorId: Types.ObjectId
createdAt?: Date
updatedAt?: Date
}
export default IBook
Setup your mongoose model Book.ts
import { Schema, model } from 'mongoose'
import type { HydratedDocument, Types } from 'mongoose'
import type IBook from '../interfaces/IBook'
import { patchHistoryPlugin } from 'ts-patch-mongoose'
import { BOOK_CREATED, BOOK_UPDATED, BOOK_DELETED } from '../constants/events'
const BookSchema = new Schema<IBook>({
name: {
title: String,
required: true
},
description: {
type: String,
},
authorId: {
type: Types.ObjectId,
required: true
}
}, { timestamps: true })
BookSchema.plugin(patchHistoryPlugin, {
// Provide your event constants to plugin
eventCreated: BOOK_CREATED,
eventUpdated: BOOK_UPDATED,
eventDeleted: BOOK_DELETED,
// You can omit some properties in case you don't want to save them to patch history
omit: ['__v', 'createdAt', 'updatedAt'],
// Addition options for patchHistoryPlugin plugin
// Everything bellow is optional and just shows you what you can do:
// Code bellow is abstract example, you can use any other way to get user, reason, metadata
// These three properties will be added to patch history document automatically and give you flexibility to track who, why and when made changes to your documents
getUser: async () => {
// For example: get user from http context
// You should return an object, in case you want to save user to patch history
return httpContext.get('user') as Record<string, unknown>
},
// Reason of document (create/update/delete) like: 'Excel upload', 'Manual update', 'API call', etc.
getReason: async () => {
// For example: get reason from http context, or any other place of your application
// You shout return a string, in case you want to save reason to patch history
return httpContext.get('reason') as string
},
// You can provide any information you want to save in along with patch history
getMetadata: async () => {
// For example: get metadata from http context, or any other place of your application
// You should return an object, in case you want to save metadata to patch history
return httpContext.get('metadata') as Record<string, unknown>
},
// Do something before deleting documents
// This method will be executed before deleting document or documents and always returns a nonempty array of documents
preDelete: async (docs) => {
const bookIds = docs.map((doc) => doc._id)
await SomeOtherModel.deleteMany({ bookId: { $in: bookIds } })
},
// In case you just want to track changes in your models using events below.
// And don't want to save changes to patch history collection
patchHistoryDisabled: true,
})
const Book = model('Book', BookSchema)
export default Book
You can subscribe to events using patchEventEmitter anywhere in your application handlers/BookHandler.ts
import { patchEventEmitter } from 'ts-patch-mongoose'
import { BOOK_CREATED, BOOK_UPDATED, BOOK_DELETED } from '../constants/events'
patchEventEmitter.on(BOOK_CREATED, ({ doc }) => {
try {
console.log('Event - book created', doc)
// Do something with doc here
} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
})
patchEventEmitter.on(BOOK_UPDATED, ({ doc, oldDoc, patch }) => {
try {
console.log('Event - book updated', doc, oldDoc, patch)
// Do something with doc, oldDoc and patch here
} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
})
patchEventEmitter.on(BOOK_DELETED, ({ oldDoc }) => {
try {
console.log('Event - book deleted', oldDoc)
// Do something with doc here
} catch (error) {
console.error(error)
}
})
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