Return certain fields with .populate() from Mongoose

Question

I\'m getting returned a JSON value from MongoDB after I run my query. The problem is I do not want to return all the JSON associated with my return, I tried searching the docs a

Answer 1

If you only want a few specific fields to be returned for the populated documents, you can accomplish this by passing the field name syntax as the second argument to the populate method.

Model
.findOne({ _id: 'bogus' })
.populate('the_field_to_populate', 'name') // only return the Persons name
...

See Mongoose populate field selection