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Writing a CRUD app with Node.js and MongoDB
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Eslam Maged
Julianne Clare Sy
Julianne Clare Sy
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Hi, Eslam! I wanted to ask about this part here in the Update section:

{$set: req.body}

which is one of the parameters you sent in findByIdAndUpdate. Is it a JSON object? I haven’t seen the ‘$’ notation used in such a way before.

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