How to sort a populated document in find request?

You can also explicitly specify only required parameters of populate:

Group
  .find({})
  .populate({path: 'Members', options: { sort: { 'created_at': -1 } } })

Have a look at http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#document_Document-populate

This example above works with Mongoose 2.x and above, use this syntax:

Group
  .find({})
  .populate('Members', '_id name', null, { sort: { 'created_at': -1 } })

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