populate with mongoose pagination
If you want to use mongoose-paginate, You can do the following
var query = {};var options = { sort: { date: -1 }, populate: 'users', lean: true, offset: offset, limit: 10};Post.paginate({}, options, (err, result) => { //....})
A populate have following things
Post.find({}).populate([ // here array is for our memory. // because may need to populate multiple things { path: 'user', select: 'name', model:'User', options: { sort:{ }, skip: 5, limit : 10 }, match:{ // filter result in case of multiple result in populate // may not useful in this case } }]).exec((err, results)=>{ console.log(err, results)})