Find and Count elements of collection with Mongoose

Question

In Mongoose, I need to find elements in a collection and count them, and getting both the results of the find and count. I have tried

Model.find().count(function (err, count) {
    // Get count, but cannot get results of find
});

Is there a way to get both find() and count() without calling them twice?

Answer 1

You can use the length of the returned array:

Model.find().exec(function (err, results) {
  var count = results.length

});