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

In the following query i retrieved articles which match the condition show=true the retrieved data title and createdAt also retrieve the category of article only the title of category and it's id.

let articles = await articleModel
        .find({ show: true }, { title: 1, createdAt: 1 })
        .populate("category", { title: 1, _id: 1 });