How do I limit the number of returned items?

Question

myModel.find({}, function(err, items) {
    console.log(items.length);    // Big number
});

How can I limit the returned items to only the latest

Answer 1

For some reason I could not get this to work with the proposed answers, but I found another variation, using select, that worked for me:

models.Post.find().sort('-date').limit(10).select('published').exec(function(e, data){
        ...
});

Has the api perhaps changed? I am using version 3.8.19