References in MongoDB / Mongoose / nodejs

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I want to get references in mongoDB using nodejs/mongoose.

In the documentation I read that there are two options: Manual References or DBRefs.

Since they state its recommended to use Manual References, I decided to set up a schema in the following way:

var schema = new mongoose.Schema({
    name : String,
    reference : mongoose.Schema.ObjectId
});

1. Question: If I retrieve an array of these objects from my collection, how do I resolve the references in a good practice way?

My Idea was to use Nimble and parallelize the necessary requests. I wanted to do something like

flow.parallel(functions, function() {
    return actionList;
}); 

where I dynamically fill an array of functions

var functions = []

which I pass to nimble. (kind of this SO-question: Javascript Array of Functions)

2. Question: Is that practical? The array of functions-thing seems kind of not really the way to go to me. But I dont see any alternative, since nimble needs to be called with a static number of functions.

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Stefan

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References in MongoDB / Mongoose / nodejs