Limiting results in MongoDB but still getting the full count?

Question

For speed, I\'d like to limit a query to 10 results

db.collection.find( ... ).limit(10)

However, I\'d also like to know the total count, so

Answer 1

The accepted answer by @johnnycrab is for the mongo CLI.

If you have to write the same code in Node.js and Express.js, you will have to use it like this to be able to use the "count" function along with the toArray's "result".

var curFind = db.collection('tasks').find({query});

Then you can run two functions after it like this (one nested in the other)

curFind.count(function (e, count) {

// Use count here

    curFind.skip(0).limit(10).toArray(function(err, result) {

    // Use result here and count here

    });

});