I've been fighting with trying to get Mongoose to return data from my local MongoDB instance; I can run the same command in the MongoDB shell and I get results back. I have found a post on stackoverflow that talks about the exact problem I'm having here; I've followed the answers on this post but I still can't seem to get it working. I created a simple project to try and get something simple working and here's the code.

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;



var userSchema = new Schema({

    userId: Number,

    email: String,

    password: String,

    firstName: String,

    lastName: String,

    addresses: [

        {

            addressTypeId: Number,

            address: String,

            address2: String,

            city: String,

            state: String,

            zipCode: String

        }

    ],

    website: String,

    isEmailConfirmed: { type: Boolean, default: false },

    isActive: { type: Boolean, default: true },

    isLocked: { type: Boolean, default: false },

    roles: [{ roleName: String }],

    claims: [{ claimName: String, claimValue: String }]

});



var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/personalweb');

var userModel = mongoose.model('user', userSchema);



userModel.findOne({ email: '[email protected]' }, function (error, user) {

    console.log(Error:  + error);

    console.log(User:  + user);

});

And here is the response of the 2 console.log statements:

Error: null

User: null

When the connect method is called I see the connection being made to my Mongo instance but when the findOne command is issued nothing appears to happen. If I run the same command through the MongoDB shell I get the user record returned to me. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.