September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
11h 24m
English
Having an objectId reference can be useful. However, we often want to return a whole model as if it were an embedded sub-document, but have it contain the updated data from the referenced document. This operation is possible using Mongoose's populate method. With populate, we can retrieve the additional document details required, similar to a JOIN operation in a relational database, and merge the result into the referencing document.
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