Late reply, but adding that Mongoose also has the concept of Subdocuments. With this syntax, you should be able to reference your userSchema as a type in your postSchema like so: var userSchema = new Schema({. twittername: String, twitterID: Number, displayName: String, profilePic: String, }); var postSchema = new Schema({. More @Wikipedia
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