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copied!<p>I'm going to try and keep this as simple as possible. I've spent all day testing modules to do this, and at this point have gotten so confused with everything I figured this would be my best option.</p> <p>I have a Schema:</p> <pre><code>var AppSchema = new mongoose.Schema({ appid: { type: Number }, appname: { type: String }, appdesc: { type: String } }); app.db.model('userApp', AppSchema); </code></pre> <p>Using Express and processing a POST, I then want to create "a new app"</p> <pre><code>app.post('/app/new', function (req, res) { var newApp = app.db.models.userApp({ appid: functionToIncreaseByOne(), appname: req.param('appname'), appdesc: req.param('appdesc') }); newApp.save(); }); </code></pre> <p>I removed most of the bloat in there, redirects, etc, just to keep this simple. So what I would like to do is to have the APPID be set at 1 first the first app added, and then increase +1 for each new app that is added. It seems so simple but i've gone through so many complex examples my head just hurts now. </p> <p>I thought about just using .find and then orderby to find the app with the highest appid, then just use that and add +1 to it, but i'm sure there has to be another, easier way. I DON'T want the appid to change when there is an update, the only time I want it to be set is on that first POST route to create the new app.</p> <p>If someone could please help me out here or at least point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>

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