find(...).populate is not a function in mongoose

node.js mongodb mongoose populate mongoose-populate

I found the solution and was pretty easy. Seemed that I was really close yesterday.

I was doing the populate method in a collection doodleCollection and I needed to do it in the model.

Changing the object that makes the find totally worked.

Instead of doodleCollection.find(...) now I call doodleModel.find(...) and populate is working perfect!

node.js mongodb mongoose populate mongoose-populate

I was using following which gives me null as data:-

let PostModel = mongoose.model('Post');

Then I changed it as following and populate method worked:-

let PostModel = require("../model/post.js"); //path to your post model

Make sure you exported Model from your post.js model file like following:-

module.exports = mongoose.model('Post', PostSchema);

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