Source: https://seerepo.com/docs/mongoose
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/docs/mongoose.md
Description: How SeeRepo finds your Mongoose models and the parts of your app that use them.

# SeeRepo with Mongoose

Mongoose describes your MongoDB data in code. SeeRepo reads it inside whatever framework your app uses, often [Express](/docs/express) or Next.js.

## What SeeRepo reads

- **Your models**, from `mongoose.model("X", schema)`, `model<T>("X", schema)` and helpers your project writes with the same shape. Each one is a **data model** on your map.
- **The file that defines a model** becomes **data**, so it sits with your data on the right of the map instead of inside your product.
- **MongoDB as a service**, from your packages, your environment variables and the URLs in your code.

## An example from our test bank

`hagopj13/node-express-boilerplate`, an Express API, read at a fixed commit:

- 2 data models: Token and User
- 2 files of data, 3 actions and 34 inner pieces
- MongoDB, found as a service with its proof

`async-labs/saas`, a monorepo of Next.js apps and Express APIs, shows 7 Mongoose models: Discussion, EmailTemplate, Invitation, PasswordlessToken, Post, Team and User.

## Good to know

- A model is found by the call that registers it, never by its file's name.