Most efficient way to check if element exists in a set - node.js

Question

so in my MongoDB database I have a collection holding user posts.
Within that collection I have a set called "likes", which holds an array of the ids of the users that have liked that post. When querying I would like to pass a user id to my query and have a boolean in the result telling me whether the id exists in the array to see whether the user has already liked the post. I understand this would be easy to do with two queries, one to get the post and one to check if the user has liked it, but I would like to find the most efficient way to do this.
For example, one of my documents looks like this
{
_id: 24jef247jos991,
post: "Test Post",
likes: ["userid1", "userid2"]
}
When I query from "userid1" I would like the return
{
_id: 24jef247jos991,
post: "Test Post",
likes: ["userid1", "userid2"],
userLiked: true
}
But when I query from let's say "userid3" I would like
{
_id: 24jef247jos991,
post: "Test Post",
likes: ["userid1", "userid2"],
userLiked: false
}

Answer 1

You can add the $addFields stage checking each of the document likes arrays against the input user.
db.collection.aggregate( [
{
$addFields: {
"userLiked":{ $in: [ "userid1", "$likes" ] }
}
}
] )

Answer 2

Starting from MongoDB 3.4 you can use the $in aggregation operator to check if an array contains a given element. You can use the $addFields operator aggregation operator to add the newly computed value to your document without explicitly including other fields.
db.collection.aggregate( [
{ "$addFields": { "userLiked": { "$in": [ "userid1", "$likes" ] } } }
])
In MongoDB 3.2, you can use the $setIsSubset operator and the square bracket [] operator to do this. The downside of this approach is that you need to manually $project all the field in your document. Also the $setIsSubset operator with de-duplicate your array which may not be what you want.
db.collection.aggregate([
{ "$project": {
"post": 1, "likes": 1,
"userLiked": { "$setIsSubset": [ [ "userid3" ], "$likes" ] }
}}
])
Finally if your mongod version is 3.0 or older you need to use the $literal operator instead of the [] operator.