Mongoose nested query on Model by field of its referenced model

Question

It seems like there is a lot of Q/A\'s on this topic on stackoverflow, but I can\'t seem to find an exact answer anywhere.

What I have:

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Answer 1

In case anyone comes across this in more recent times, Mongoose now supports join like functionality with a feature called Populate.

From the Mongoose documentation:

Story.findOne({ 
    title: 'Casino Royale' 
}).populate('author').exec(function (err, story) {
    if (err) return handleError(err);
    console.log('The author is %s', story.author.name);
    // prints "The author is Ian Fleming"
});

http://mongoosejs.com/docs/populate.html