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OrangeJuice1-
OrangeJuice1-

Reputation: 109

MongoDB - Posting and getting user specific data

I'm building a MEAN stack application with passport auth and just wanted to know the best approach to storing and getting user specific data.

So say for a simple example I had a collection of users and a collection of fruits stored inside a database.

The user can add a favourite fruit, which will be stored in the fruits collection against their specific user ID. When they return to the app at a later stage, I can get all the favourite fruits for that specific user and display them on the page.

Would the best approach be to store these fruits in a separate collection?

Or should they be stored in that specific user document in the users collection?

In terms of then getting the data back, would I have to check the user ID of the logged in user and then get all of the favourites for that user ID?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 302

Answers (1)

Tin Fan Chung
Tin Fan Chung

Reputation: 94

I think you are asking about reference or embedded. This link MongoDB relationships: embed or reference? may answer your questions.

Upvotes: 1

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