Creating a Search Functionality Route using NodeJS and Mongoose.

I’ve been playing with the MongoDB methods and I found this to be a way to create a search functionality in the back end.

router.get('/search?value=', async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const posts = await Model.find({ $or: [{ 'name': new RegExp(value, 'i') }, { 'text': new RegExp(value, 'i') }] }).sort({ date: -1 });
    res.json(posts);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err.message);
    res.status(500).send('Server error');
  }
});

If I’m not mistaken the proper way to do the same but with aggregate, I believe its something like this:

searh: async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const posts = await Model.find({ $or: [{ 'name': new RegExp(value, 'i') }, { 'text': new RegExp(value, 'i') }] }).sort({ date: -1 });
    res.json(posts);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err.message);
    res.status(500).send('Server error');
  }
}

It might be true, it might not be; I’m not sure, I’m not that expert in using aggregate.