$ne not working in MongoDB query

Question

My MongoDB query isn't filtering by $ne on the FeathersJS client plugin. Location/$near is working.

 app.service('users').find({
                query: {
                    location: {
                        $near: {
                            $geometry: {type: "Point", coordinates: [user.location.coordinates[0], user.location.coordinates[1]]},
                            $minDistance: 0,
                            $maxDistance: 20000
                        }
                    },
                    _id: {
                        $ne: user._id
                    },
                    profileSetup: true
                }

Answer 1

Normally in Mongo to compare ObjectIDs you need to wrap your value (user._id) with ObjectId, importing it from Mongo.

const ObjectID = require("mongodb").ObjectID

 app.service('users').find({
   query: {
     location: {
       //... geo query here
       _id: {
          $ne: ObjectID(user._id)
       },
       profileSetup: true
     }

The reason is that an objectId is not a string internally, I guess. :)