I have the below code in my Mongoose/NodeJS controller, which is used to shuffle the records in a collection. The shuffle is working as expected.
In the 'Sliders' collection, I only want to display 4 shuffled records in the front end; however, I want to limit the number of records in the controller rather than slice them in the front end, because there are a lot of records in the collection.
At the moment, my code limits them before it shuffles them, hence it always displays the same 4 records. How can I shuffle the collection in the controller, then subsequently limit to 4 records in the controller, so I can then display them in the front end?
function shuffleArray(array) {
for (let i = array.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
const j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1));
[array[i], array[j]] = [array[j], array[i]];
}
}
const sliders = await Slider.find({ "category": "Slider" }).limit(4);
shuffleArray(sliders);
Try aggregation with $match and $sample https://mongoosejs.com/docs/api/aggregate.html#aggregate_Aggregate
const agg = Slider.aggregate([
{$match: {"category": "Slider"}},
{$sample: { size : 4 }}
]);
const sliders = await agg.exec();