When using mongodb aggregate, the limit only works for the whole data pass to it, It doesn’t work on the group data. Such as similar function reduce of RethinkDB.

Let’s say we group and push to an array like this:

aggregate([
  {
    $group: { _id: {"name": $name}, docs: {$push: '$$ROOT'} }
  }
])

If we use limit, it works on the whole group thing as a single document. How do we limits only first 5 element in docs.

The tricks to this is $slice in a projection step:

aggregate([
  {
    $group: { _id: {"name": $name}, docs: {$push: '$$ROOT'} }
  },
  {
    $group: { _id: {"name": $name}, docs: {$push: '$$ROOT'} }
  }

])

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