I need to create an account for a student and a teacher. Should I create two separate models in mongoose for student and teacher? What's the right approach? Student and teacher will share some properties and some will differ.
At this moment I have only one model for student and tutor:
const userSchema = new Schema({
name: {
type: String,
trim: true,
required: true,
maxLength: 32
},
surname: {
type: String,
trim: true,
required: true,
maxLength: 32
},
email: {
type: String,
unique: true,
trim: true,
required: true,
lowercase: true
},
isActiveTutor: {
type: Boolean,
default: false
},
birthCountry: String,
initials: String,
hashed_password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
salt: String,
role: {
type: String
},
teachingLanguage:{
type: Object,
/*language: {
language,
level,
price
}*/
},
resetPasswordLink: {
data: String,
default: ''
}
}, {timestamps: true});
But what if I wanted to give a teacher properties that a student would not have?