Workflow for developing for Mongoose queries

What are some good ways to reduce the time I spend iterating on the development of new Mongoose queries?

Right now, my workflow involves working on a query, waiting for my Node app to restart, calling the API I'm developing, and inspecting the results. That's a lot of overhead for tweaking a query.

Any suggestions for improving this process?

Either use something like mongooser (a mongoose repl) or just open the node repl yourself, and manually set up mongoose with your schemas/models - play around that way.