Text search with projection in MongoDB & Node.js

Question

Is it possible to do a text search and apply projection to the returned documents via the Node.js API in MongoDB? The code below does not apply the projection and I get the entire document back, however I am only after the person property.

collection.find({ $text: { $search: 'hello' } }, { person: 1 }).toArray();

Answer 1

Have you tried to use project method like this:

db.collection('collectionName').find({ $text: { $search: 'hello' } }).project({ person: 1 });

As stated in documentation this should be way how you can do projection with MongoDB Node.js library. The example you have provided is how can you do projection in Mongo Shell.