How to limit results of a LEFT JOIN

Question

Take the case of two tables: tbl_product and tbl_transaction.
tbl_product lists product details including names and ids while

Answer 1

I found way to make LEFT JOIN with subquery, sorted and limited, its works on RDS Amazon, MariaDB v10.2

LEFT JOIN activities last_activity ON last_activity.id = ( 
     SELECT id FROM activities 
     WHERE contester_id = contesters.id AND `type` IN ({$last_activity_types}) 
     ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1 
)

All others ways to make LEFT JOIN with GROUPING and SORTING didn't works for me. This example is working exception.