How to get array of json objects rather than mongoose documents

Question

When I do find operation like the follows:

Collection.find({name: \'Erik\'}, function (err, docs) {
   // do momething
});

\'docs\' variable is

Answer 1

If you're using Mongoose 3.x you can use the lean query option to do this:

Collection.find({name: 'Erik'}).lean().exec(function (err, docs) {
    // docs are plain javascript objects instead of model instances
});