Best way to perform a full text search in MongoDB and Mongoose
You can add a text index to your Mongoose schema definition that lets you use the $text operator in your find queries to search all fields included in the text index.
To create an index to support text search on, say, name and profile.something:
var schema = new Schema({ name: String, email: String, profile: { something: String, somethingElse: String }});schema.index({name: 'text', 'profile.something': 'text'});Or if you want to include all string fields in the index, use the '$**' wildcard:
schema.index({'$**': 'text'});This would enable you to performed a paged text search query like:
MyModel.find({$text: {$search: searchString}}) .skip(20) .limit(10) .exec(function(err, docs) { ... });For more details, read the full MongoDB Text Indexes documentation.