How to set populate limit in mongoose?

Question

MongoDB

Greetings.
I'm using Mongoose;
There is such a scheme

var UserSchema = new Schema({
 login:{type:String,unique:true,required:true},
_works:[{type:Number,ref:'Work'}]
});

To get a list of works ( _works ) the following construction is used

users.findOne({login:login}).populate('_works').exec(callback);

Question. How to limit the number of jobs that will end up in the callback as a result?
There can be a lot of works, so you don’t want to load them all at once. With a large number, they will be loaded by ajax. That is, it is also necessary to implement some kind of offset.
In which direction to dig to implement such functionality?

Answer 1

Alternatively, use the mongodb aggregation framework to make $unwind ( mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#aggregate-js ) splitting one document with a large array into many small ones, but with one element. Further in the code, do pagination.