Mongoosejs has been an awesome ORM library for nodejs/mongodb development. For what it does, it has been great I've been using for atleast 2 years without any real issue. However, whenever I've ran into issues, it has been very difficult to get community feedback. You can visit the irc channel, and its only about 38 people and 99% of the time it is an idle channel. You can try and get someone to say anything but chances are no one will respond.<p>Now the real reason I'm bringing this up is because it feels like mongoose although great, is missing some common ORM functionalities. For example, when using 'population', model methods are not available as only a hash is returned and not the object instance of the populated doc.<p>Anyway, just a rant really but would really like to get other peoples thought on using mongoose and their experience with getting help with the community.
Heya,<p>As the maintainer of mongoose, I must admit I haven't visited the IRC channel in a while. I've been focusing on the gitter chat (<a href="https://gitter.im/LearnBoost/mongoose?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge" rel="nofollow">https://gitter.im/LearnBoost/mongoose?utm_source=badge&utm_m...</a>) and the github issues.
Also, if anyone has answers to the mongoose population as an instance question, would love your feedback and comments @stackoverflow, <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28206734/mongoose-populate-as-an-instance-object" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28206734/mongoose-populat...</a>