Mongoose basically wraps mongodb's api to give you a pseudo relational db api so queries are not going to be exactly like mongodb queries. Mongoose findOne query returns a query object, not a document. You can either use a callback as the solution suggests or as of v4+ findOne returns a thenable so you can use .then or await/async to retrieve the document.
// thenables
Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).then(err, result) {console.log(result)};
Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).then(function (doc) {console.log(doc)});
// To use a full fledge promise you will need to use .exec()
var auth = Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).exec();
auth.then(function (doc) {console.log(doc)});
// async/await
async function auth() {
const doc = await Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).exec();
return doc;
}
auth();
See the docs if you would like to use a third party promise library.