Running Script to Modify Database - Mongoose Model.find is not a function - node.js

Question

I have a basic script to find all customers without a name field, and log them. The error Customer.find is not a function is returned. The rest of the code works just fine when running the app normally, so it is not a module export issue. The customer module works perfectly when running the app normally. I execute this script by calling node server/scripts/script.js
Any ideas? Full code and error below.
Script
'use strict';
process.env.NODE_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
require('babel-core/register');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const config = require('../config/environment');
const Customer = require('../api/customer/customer.model');
mongoose.connect(config.mongo.uri, config.mongo.options);
console.log('Customer');
console.log(Customer);
Customer.find({
$or: [
{ 'name': false },
{ 'name': '' },
],
}, function (err, customers) {
if (err) return console.error(err);
console.log(customers.length);
});
Error
Customer
{ default:
{ [Function: model]
hooks: Kareem { _pres: {}, _posts: {} },
base:
Mongoose {
connections: [Object],
plugins: [],
models: [Object],
modelSchemas: [Object],
options: [Object] },
modelName: 'Customer',
model: [Function: model],
db:
NativeConnection {
base: [Object],
collections: [Object],
models: [Object],
config: [Object],
replica: false,
hosts: null,
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
user: undefined,
pass: undefined,
name: 'toro-dev',
options: [Object],
otherDbs: [],
_readyState: 2,
_closeCalled: false,
_hasOpened: false,
_listening: false,
db: [Object] },
discriminators: undefined,
findScript: [Function: findScript],
schema:
Schema {
paths: [Object],
subpaths: {},
virtuals: [Object],
singleNestedPaths: {},
nested: {},
inherits: {},
callQueue: [Object],
_indexes: [],
methods: [Object],
statics: [Object],
tree: [Object],
_requiredpaths: undefined,
discriminatorMapping: undefined,
_indexedpaths: undefined,
query: {},
childSchemas: [Object],
s: [Object],
options: [Object],
'$globalPluginsApplied': true },
collection:
NativeCollection {
collection: null,
opts: [Object],
name: 'customers',
collectionName: 'customers',
conn: [Object],
queue: [],
buffer: true,
emitter: [Object] },
Query: { [Function] base: [Object] },
'$__insertMany': [Function],
insertMany: [Function] } }
Customer.find({
^
TypeError: Customer.find is not a function
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tori/Documents/RocketSled/toro/server/scripts/remove_empty_customers.js:16:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
at startup (node.js:139:18)
at node.js:968:3
Edit:
Added console log of Customer above so you can see what it is actually linked to

Answer 1

The problem was babel - in the rest of my program, I have babel implemented so that my Customer model can be exported in a certain way. With a one-off script however, babel is not integrated or required as usual, so I had to export the Customer model in accordance with old school ES5 syntax. Changed my customer export to this:
export default mongoose.model('Customer', CustomerSchema);
module.exports = mongoose.model('Customer', CustomerSchema);
and now it works great. In my typical code, I only use the first line. I hope this helps someone else!