I have the following schema in my App:

const storySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    createdAt: { type: Date, expires: 10000 , default: Date.now },
    title: {type: String},
    creator: {type: Mongoose.types.ObjectId, ref: "User"},
    tags: [{type: String}],
    ....
})

currentSchema.index({"createdAt": 1 },{ expireAfterSeconds: 10000 });

The code above adds an index to ensure every story document is removed after 10000 ms. This code works correctly.

However I have a user schema designed like so:

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    stories: [{ type: Mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Story" }],
    title: {type: String},
    bio: {type: String},
    ....
})

When a story is automatically removed/expired I would like to automatically remove that story from the stories array of objectids which is stored on the creators document. I tried adding a pre('remove') middleware on the User model, however this isn’t fired when a document expires.

Thanks