A curated list of plugins for Mongoose 🐒.
A collection of extensions to make your life with MongoDB easier.
- General Utilities
- Developer Tools
- Validation & Security
- Caching & Performance
- Pagination & Query
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Tree & Hierarchical Data
- Timestamps & Audit
- File & Media Handling
- Miscellaneous
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| mongoose-deep-populate |  |
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Enable deep population of nested models. |
| mongoose-troop |  |
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Adds modular, reusable plugins and methods to Mongoose schemas, promoting clean code and schema composition. |
| mongoose-autopopulate |  |
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Automatically populates ref fields without calling .populate(). |
| mongoose-findorcreate |  |
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Adds a findOrCreate helper method to Mongoose models, simplifying the pattern of finding a document or creating it if it does not exist. |
| mongoose-relationship |  |
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Manages bi-directional document references, keeping parent and child relationships automatically in sync. |
| mongoose-long |  |
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Adds support for 64-bit integers (Long) in Mongoose schemas, enabling storage of large numeric values. |
| mongoose-update-if-current |  |
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Brings optimistic concurrency control to documents by incrementing version numbers on each save and preventing previous versions of a document from being saved over the current version. |
| mongoose-plugin-autoinc |  |
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Auto-increments any ID field on schema every time a document is saved. |
| mongoose-lean-virtuals |  |
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Adds support for virtuals in .lean() queries. |
| mongoose-url-slugs |  |
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Automatically generates URL-friendly slugs for Mongoose documents based on one or more fields. |
| mongoose-lean-defaults |  |
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Adds schema default values to documents returned from .lean() queries. |
| mongoose-lean-getters |  |
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Applies getters to .lean() query results. |
| mongoose-legacy-pluralize |  |
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Restores Mongoose’s legacy pluralization logic for collection names, useful for backward compatibility with older codebases. |
| mongoose-currency-convert |  |
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Adds automatic currency conversion capabilities to Mongoose models using real-time exchange rates. |
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| swagger-mongoose |  |
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Generates Mongoose models and schemas from Swagger/OpenAPI definitions. |
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| passport-local-mongoose |  |
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Simplifies integration of Passport.js local authentication with Mongoose models, including password hashing and user management. |
| mongoose-auth |  |
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Provides authentication helpers for Mongoose models, supporting password hashing, OAuth, and user management. |
| mongoose-unique-validator |  |
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Validates uniqueness of fields before saving. |
| mongoose-validator |  |
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Wrapper for validator.js to use as Mongoose validators. |
| mongoose-beautiful-unique-validation |  |
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Enhances MongoDB unique constraint errors with cleaner, user-friendly validation messages. |
| mongoose-hidden |  |
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Hides sensitive fields (like passwords or tokens) from JSON.stringify(). |
| mongoose-acl |  |
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Adds access control lists (ACL) to Mongoose models, enabling fine-grained permissions. |
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| cachegoose |  |
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Adds caching to Mongoose queries using Redis or other backends, reducing database load. |
| ts-cache-mongoose |  |
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Cache query and aggregate in mongoose using in-memory or redis. |
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| mongoosastic |  |
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Integrates Mongoose models with Elasticsearch, providing real-time indexing and search capabilities. |
| mongoose-paginate-v2 |  |
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Advanced pagination plugin for queries. |
| mongoose-aggregate-paginate-v2 |  |
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Pagination for aggregation queries. |
| mongoose-fuzzy-searching |  |
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Fuzzy full-text search across multiple fields. |
| mongoose-paginate-ts |  |
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TypeScript-friendly pagination plugin for Mongoose models, offering flexible query and result pagination utilities. |
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| mongoose-intl |  |
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Adds multilingual field support to Mongoose schemas with locale fallback and helpers. |
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| mongoose-nested-set |  |
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Implements the Nested Set pattern for hierarchical data. |
| mongoose-tree |  |
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Adds tree structure support to Mongoose schemas, enabling parent-child relationships and hierarchical queries. |
| mongoose-mpath |  |
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Implements materialized path pattern for hierarchical data in Mongoose, enabling easy retrieval of ancestors, descendants, and subtrees. |
| mongoose-materialized |  |
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Adds support for hierarchical data using the materialized path pattern. |
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| mongoose-timestamp |  |
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Automatically adds createdAt and updatedAt. |
| mongoose-version |  |
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Automatically maintains document version history. |
| mongoose-patch-history |  |
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Maintains a history of changes to documents using JSON Patch format, allowing auditing and rollback of updates. |
| mongoose-diff-history |  |
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Tracks document diffs between versions for lightweight auditing. |
| mongoose-history-plugin |  |
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Tracks changes to Mongoose documents over time, maintaining a history of modifications for auditing and rollback purposes. |
| ts-patch-mongoose |  |
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Track changes of mongoose models and save them as patch history (audit log) in separate collection. |
| mongoose-history-trace |  |
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Records detailed change logs of Mongoose documents, including who made the change and when, for audit and tracking purposes. |
| mongoose-history-diff |  |
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Tracks changes to Mongoose documents by storing diffs between versions, enabling efficient versioning and audit trails. |
| mongoose-activity |  |
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Tracks and logs user activities or document changes, providing an easy way to audit events in Mongoose models. |
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| mongoose-attachments |  |
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Adds file attachment support for Mongoose models with multiple storage backends. |
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| mongoose-delete |  |
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Soft delete with restore and query helpers. |
| mongoose-sequence |  |
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Auto-increment fields. |
| mongoose-encryption |  |
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Transparent field-level encryption. |
| mongoose-field-encryption |  |
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Provides field-level encryption for Mongoose schemas, enabling transparent encryption and decryption of sensitive data. |
| mongoose-crate |  |
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Handles file attachments in Mongoose models with support for multiple storage backends and file transformations. |
🔗 Sources: community plugins, npm, and plugins.mongoosejs.io.