write custom validation in mongoose

const schema = new Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    required: true
  }
});
const Cat = db.model('Cat', schema);

// This cat has no name :(
const cat = new Cat();
cat.save(function(error) {
  assert.equal(error.errors['name'].message,
    'Path `name` is required.');

  error = cat.validateSync();
  assert.equal(error.errors['name'].message,
    'Path `name` is required.');
});

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                                    const breakfastSchema = new Schema({
  eggs: {
    type: Number,
    min: [6, 'Too few eggs'],
    max: 12
  },
  bacon: {
    type: Number,
    required: [true, 'Why no bacon?']
  },
  drink: {
    type: String,
    enum: ['Coffee', 'Tea'],
    required: function() {
      return this.bacon &gt; 3;
    }
  }
});
const Breakfast = db.model('Breakfast', breakfastSchema);

const badBreakfast = new Breakfast({
  eggs: 2,
  bacon: 0,
  drink: 'Milk'
});
let error = badBreakfast.validateSync();
assert.equal(error.errors['eggs'].message,
  'Too few eggs');
assert.ok(!error.errors['bacon']);
assert.equal(error.errors['drink'].message,
  '`Milk` is not a valid enum value for path `drink`.');

badBreakfast.bacon = 5;
badBreakfast.drink = null;

error = badBreakfast.validateSync();
assert.equal(error.errors['drink'].message, 'Path `drink` is required.');

badBreakfast.bacon = null;
error = badBreakfast.validateSync();
assert.equal(error.errors['bacon'].message, 'Why no bacon?');

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