We can return documents from a MongoDB database by sorting them in an ascending or descending order using the sort() function.

The MongoDB cursor provides the sort() function that accepts a document as an argument. The key inside the document represents the field we want the documents to sort by. We provide a value of 1 if we want to sort by ascending order and -1 for descending order.

I have three records in my MongoDB database.

The following query returns the list of three records with the price field sorted in descending order.

const sort = async () => {
  const result = await Product.find({}).sort({
    price: -1,
  })

  console.log(result)
}

sort()

Executing the query above gives us the following result:

[
   {
     _id: new ObjectId("6195fa11f159807fdf65d854"),
     name: 'Canon 80D DSLR Camera',
     brand: 'Cannon',
     category: 'Electronics',
     price: 1099,
     __v: 0
   },
   {
     _id: new ObjectId("6195fa11f159807fdf65d853"),
     name: 'Airpods Pro',
     brand: 'Apple',
     category: 'Electronics',
     price: 99.99,
     __v: 0
   },
   {
     _id: new ObjectId("6195fa11f159807fdf65d855"),
     name: 'Logitech Gaming Mouse',
     brand: 'Logitech',
     category: 'Electronics',
     price: 49.99,
     __v: 0
   }
 ]