Get the latest record from mongodb collection

Question

I want to know the most recent record in a collection. How to do that?

Note: I know the following command line queries works:

1. db.test.find().sort(         


        

Answer 1

This will give you one last document for a collection

db.collectionName.findOne({}, {sort:{$natural:-1}})

$natural:-1 means order opposite of the one that records are inserted in.

Edit: For all the downvoters, above is a Mongoose syntax, mongo CLI syntax is: db.collectionName.find({}).sort({$natural:-1}).limit(1)