Skip validation for one field, not all the schema

[samislam]

I have the following long schema:

    const mySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
      // some stuff, email, lastName ... etc
      firstName: {
        type: String,
        required: true,
      }
      password: {
        type: String,
        minLength: 8,
        maxLength: 120,
      }
    })

And I am inside one of the routes, I want to save a document that I am editing, but I only want to skip one validation, not the entire schema, I want to skip the validation for the firstName field, but I want the rest of the fields to be validated.

Is there something that I can do in Mongoose such as:

    userDoc.firstName = "new first name";
    const newDoc = await userDoc.save({ validateBeforeSave: yes, but not for firstName })

Is there something like that?

[vkarpov15]

Yeah, check out the pathsToSkip option for validate: https://mongoosejs.com/docs/api/document.html#document_Document-validate