MongoDB, Mongoose: How to find subdocument in found document?

Question

I\'m stuck on trying to get subdocument by _id in found document.

Example Schema

var User = mongoose.Schema({
        name:       String         


        

Answer 1

Adding to srquinn's answer, from my limited experience I thought populate was for joining documents from different collections together?

I think here you could just do User.findOne({ name: 'foo' }, 'photos') which is shorthand for:

const query = User.findOne({ name: 'foo' })
query.select('photos')