Why we add 's' after the name of collection when we want drop that?

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Here I want to drop my collection(Table in MySQL) but I can't understand why we add 's' to the name of the collection, sample:
[name of Collection(table) : myCollection]

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
 mongoose.connection.collections.myCollections.drop();

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '18 at 18:27

A model is representative of one singular item. A collection is a bunch of those singular items. Mongoose does some auto pluralization so you will have to dig into the docs into how to customize it or adjust it.

According to their docs Mongoose by default produces a collection name by passing the model name to the utils.toCollectionName method. This method pluralizes the name. Set this option if you need a different name for your collection.

Check out http://mongoosejs.com/docs/guide.html for more info

Why we add 's' after the name of collection when we want drop that?

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