How to sort a collection by date in MongoDB?

Question

I am using MongoDB with Node.JS. I have a collection which contains a date and other rows. The date is a JavaScript Date object.

How can I sort this col

Answer 1

With mongoose I was not able to use 'toArray', and was getting the error: TypeError: Collection.find(...).sort(...).toArray is not a function. The toArray function exists on the Cursor class from the Native MongoDB NodeJS driver (reference).

Also sort accepts only one parameter, so you can't pass your function inside it.

This worked for me (as answered by Emil):

collection.find().sort('-date').exec(function(error, result) {
  // Your code
})