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Mongoose has a more powerful alternative called populate() , which lets you reference documents in other collections. Population is the process of automatically ...

2021年4月19日 — You're using the populate() method on two different types of objects - ie a query and a document - which have their own specification for the ...

Populating an existing document ... If you have an existing mongoose document and want to populate some of its paths, you can use the Document#populate() method.

2021年2月18日 — I think the same happens with save() method, the return type is Promise of Document. I'm using typegoose v7.6.0, Mongoose 5.10.18 (as in the ...

2020年3月13日 — mongoose Not able to return populated see blow Model import Schema, model } from 'mongoose' import transformVirtuals } from ...

2023年5月4日 — The populate() method in Mongoose enables the population of referenced data. For instance, if your StorySchema includes a _creator field ...

2021年9月22日 — From changelogs at https://mongoosejs.com/docs/migrating_to_6.html#removed-execpopulate,. the line should be replaced to

Document#populate() now returns a promise and is now no longer chainable. Replace await doc.populate('path1').populate('path2').execPopulate(); with await doc.

2021年9月9日 — Mongoose 6 removed the `Document#execPopulate()` method. This means you can `await doc.populate()` without any chaining!

so i found the solution on the mongoose documentation. apparently 'virtuals are not included in tojson() output by default. if you want populate virtuals to ...