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 can try using below,

 Model
    .find()
    .populate({path: 'foreign_field', ['_id', 'name']}) // only return the Id and Persons name
    ...