The populate method is designed to seamlessly reference and link data across different MongoDB collections through ObjectId references. In this tutorial, let’s look at this method, its very easy to use syntax
Mongoose provides a method called populate(). Used in conjunction with the ref schema property, data can be pulled in from other documents in place of an id. The process is fairly straightforward. However, what Automattic’s documentation doesn’t explain is how to populate multiple paths, and...
In your case, you could hard code the populates in such a method, if you strictly need them in every find call. AFAIK there's no way to auto-populate all references to another model out of the box (there are plugins though). In a similar fashion to @gustavohenke's answer you can ...
mongooseRelationalTypes Wrapper enhancements for mongoose, that allow for populate and deep populate method to automatically replace the oid/id with the right hand side of the relationship Wrapper around mongoose to provide type support for relationship in documents, when using populate and deeppopulate...