major performance fix by adding a SharingDocument to the user's DB account so that inquiring the users' UserDoc (and everything it referecens) is no longer necessary.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/server/authentication/AuthenticationManager.ts b/src/server/authentication/AuthenticationManager.ts
index 00f1fe44e..36363e3cf 100644
--- a/src/server/authentication/AuthenticationManager.ts
+++ b/src/server/authentication/AuthenticationManager.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ export let postSignup = (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
     const model = {
         email,
         password,
-        userDocumentId: Utils.GenerateGuid()
+        userDocumentId: Utils.GenerateGuid(),
+        sharingDocumentId: Utils.GenerateGuid()
     } as Partial<DashUserModel>;
 
     const user = new User(model);
diff --git a/src/server/authentication/DashUserModel.ts b/src/server/authentication/DashUserModel.ts
index 51d920a8f..0bdc25644 100644
--- a/src/server/authentication/DashUserModel.ts
+++ b/src/server/authentication/DashUserModel.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ export type DashUserModel = mongoose.Document & {
     passwordResetExpires?: Date,
 
     userDocumentId: string;
+    sharingDocumentId: string;
 
     profile: {
         name: string,
@@ -35,7 +36,8 @@ const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
     passwordResetToken: String,
     passwordResetExpires: Date,
 
-    userDocumentId: String,
+    userDocumentId: String,    // id that identifies a document which hosts all of a user's account data
+    sharingDocumentId: String, // id that identifies a document that stores documents shared to a user, their user color, and any additional info needed to communicate between users
 
     facebook: String,
     twitter: String,