Is there a native way to get MongoDB results as object instead of array?

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Checked couple of old similar questions but no luck in finding the right answers.

I have a mongo query that uses await/async to fetch results from the database, So the code looks like this :

(async () => {
  //get connection object
  const db = await getDatabaseConnection("admindb");

   //get user data object
  const configResponse = await db.collection("config").find({}).toArray();
  
  //prints results
  console.log("Successfully Fetched Configuration", configResponse);
})();

The above code works fine, just that it returns me an array of elements since I have used the .toArray() method.

Sample Result:

[
  {
    _id: "6028d30db7ea89f74df013d9",
    tokenize: false,
    configurations: { theme: {} }
  }
]

Is there a NATIVE WAY (not looking forEach responses) to get result as an object since I will always have only one document returned. I have multiple queries that returns only one document, Hence accessing using the 0th index everytime did not seem the right way.

A look into the documentation usually helps. docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/db.collection.findOne — Tomalak
– Tomalak, Commented Feb 19, 2021 at 8:17

Haniel Baez · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-19 16:04:02Z

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I am thinking if the findOne() will help you.

Check this out docs

await db.collection("config").findOne({});

Here are some examples

edited Feb 19, 2021 at 16:04

Haniel Baez

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answered Feb 19, 2021 at 8:20

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