Here is a clean and complete guide for Node.js MongoDB Limit.
The limit() method is used to control how many documents MongoDB returns.
It is often used with:
find()
sort()
skip() (pagination)
1 2 3 4 | const results = await collection .find() .limit(5) .toArray(); |
1 2 3 4 5 | const results = await collection .find() .sort({ age: -1 }) // descending .limit(3) .toArray(); |
1 2 3 4 | const results = await collection .find({ city: "Surat" }) .limit(2) .toArray(); |
Example: Page 2 with 10 records per page.
Formula:
1 | skip = (page - 1) * limit |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | const page = 2; const limit = 10; const skip = (page - 1) * limit; const results = await collection .find() .skip(skip) .limit(limit) .toArray(); |
1 2 3 4 | const results = await collection .find({}, { projection: { name: 1, city: 1 } }) .limit(3) .toArray(); |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | const { MongoClient } = require("mongodb"); const url = "mongodb://localhost:27017/"; const client = new MongoClient(url); async function run() { try { await client.connect(); console.log("Connected to MongoDB"); const db = client.db("mydb"); const collection = db.collection("customers"); const results = await collection .find() .limit(5) .toArray(); console.log(results); } finally { await client.close(); } } run(); |
