# \$1sort
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The `$sort` aggregation stage orders documents in the pipeline based on specified field values. Documents are arranged in ascending or descending order according to the sort criteria provided.

**Parameters**
+ `field`: The field name to sort by.
+ `order`: Use `1` for ascending order or `-1` for descending order.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example demonstrates using the `$sort` stage to order products by price in descending order.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.products.insertMany([
  { _id: 1, name: "Laptop", category: "Electronics", price: 1200 },
  { _id: 2, name: "Mouse", category: "Electronics", price: 25 },
  { _id: 3, name: "Desk", category: "Furniture", price: 350 },
  { _id: 4, name: "Chair", category: "Furniture", price: 150 },
  { _id: 5, name: "Monitor", category: "Electronics", price: 400 }
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.products.aggregate([
  { $sort: { price: -1 } }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  { _id: 1, name: 'Laptop', category: 'Electronics', price: 1200 },
  { _id: 5, name: 'Monitor', category: 'Electronics', price: 400 },
  { _id: 3, name: 'Desk', category: 'Furniture', price: 350 },
  { _id: 4, name: 'Chair', category: 'Furniture', price: 150 },
  { _id: 2, name: 'Mouse', category: 'Electronics', price: 25 }
]
```

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$sort` aggregation stage, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const collection = db.collection('products');

  const result = await collection.aggregate([
    { $sort: { price: -1 } }
  ]).toArray();

  console.log(result);
  await client.close();
}

example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client['test']
    collection = db['products']

    result = list(collection.aggregate([
        { '$sort': { 'price': -1 } }
    ]))

    print(result)
    client.close()

example()
```

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