Mongoose: Get full list of users

Question

Well, if you really want to return a mapping from _id to user, you could always do:

server.get('/usersList', function(req, res) {
  User.find({}, function(err, users) {
    var userMap = {};

    users.forEach(function(user) {
      userMap[user._id] = user;
    });

    res.send(userMap);  
  });
});

find() returns all matching documents in an array, so your last code snipped sends that array to the client.

If you'd like to send the data to a view pass the following in.

    server.get('/usersList', function(req, res) {
        User.find({}, function(err, users) {
           res.render('/usersList', {users: users});
        });
    });

Inside your view you can loop through the data using the variable users

This is just an Improvement of @soulcheck 's answer, and fix of the typo in forEach (missing closing bracket);

    server.get('/usersList', (req, res) => 
        User.find({}, (err, users) => 
            res.send(users.reduce((userMap, item) => {
                userMap[item.id] = item
                return userMap
            }, {}));
        );
    );

cheers!

There was the very easy way to list your data :

server.get('/userlist' , function (req , res) {
 User.find({}).then(function (users) {
 res.send(users);
 });
});

Same can be done with async await and arrow function

server.get('/usersList', async (req, res) => {

const users = await User.find({});

const userMap = {};
users.forEach((user) => {
    userMap[user._id] = user;
});

res.send(userMap);

});

In case we want to list all documents in Mongoose collection after update or delete

We can edit the function to some thing like this:

exports.product_update = function (req, res, next) {
        Product.findByIdAndUpdate(req.params.id, {$set: req.body}, function (err, product) {
            if (err) return next(err);
            Product.find({}).then(function (products) {
                res.send(products);
                });
            //res.send('Product udpated.');
        });
    };

This will list all documents on success instead of just showing success message