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Javascript – Mongoose findOne always return null

This is the user snippet

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: { type: String, required: true },
  lastName: { type: String, required: true },
  email: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
  password: { type: String, required: true },
  userType: { type: String, required: true },
  workplaces: { type: [Number], required: true },
});

const User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema, 'users');

module.exports = User;

This is the code that i have

const accountExists = await User.findOne({ email: extractData.email})
console.log(accountExists);

If the email that the user has entered exists in the db there should be an error but the findOne always return null even if there is a user with the same email

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  1. 0

    Error while creating a new user It says, the error is coming while creating new user.
    Because there is already a user with same identity.

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  2. 0

    based on the error it means that the user isn’t saved , because that user is already stored in the database. so in your insert controller try to make a condition and first try to extract properties from object that you send to you database:
    for exemple :
    {username , email ,password } = req.body;

    and use this approach instead:
    //check if we have the same userEmail that the user entered in our database:
    const userEmail = await User.findOne({ email });

    //if it exists we send this error to him:
if (userEmail) {
  return res.status(400).json({ error: "email already exists" });
}
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