es6 spread operator - mongoose result copy

Question

I\'m developping an express js API with mongo DB and mongoose.

I would like to create an object in Javascript es6 composed of few variables and the result of a mongo

Answer 1

You can use the Mongoose Document.toObject() method. It will return the underlying plain JavaScript object fetched from the database.

const newObject = {...result.toObject(), toto: "toto"};

You can read more about the .toObject() method here.