Answer: Using Mongoose `pre` hook to get document before findOneAndUpdate()

answer re: Using Mongoose `pre` hook to get document before findOneAndUpdate()

Feb 7 '19

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You can't retrieve the document in the pre hook.

According to the documentation pre is a query middleware and this refers to the query and not the document being updated.

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[Basit Raza]

If we can't get the document in the pre hook then what is the purpose of pre hook?

[Swapnil Soni]

There's a hack we can do is getQuery and we can use mongoose.model('modelName') and do find operation