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

you to try :

Post.find({_id: {$nin: [info._id]}, tags: {$in: info.tags}}).sort({_id:-1})
.populate('uid','nm')
.populate('tags','nm')
.limit(20).exec();