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Instagram clone | How to handle stories being visible only for 24h?

Title says it all. How would you handle Instagram stories being visible only 24h after being posted?

I'm working with mongooose. I found there is an

expires

expires

option available in second parameter of

mongoose.Schema()

mongoose.Schema()

import mongoose from 'mongoose'

const oneDay = 86400 // seconds

const storySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    author: { type: mongoose.SchemaTypes.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
    content: { type: [String], required: true }
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
    expires: oneDay // 👈 
  }
)

const Story = mongoose.models.Story || mongoose.model('Story', storySchema)

export default Story

import mongoose from 'mongoose'

const oneDay = 86400 // seconds

const storySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    author: { type: mongoose.SchemaTypes.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
    content: { type: [String], required: true }
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
    expires: oneDay // 👈 
  }
)

const Story = mongoose.models.Story || mongoose.model('Story', storySchema)

export default Story

But I'm not sure what happens after it expires? I don't want it to get deleted. I still want to have the story in my DB (so user can add it to highlights, view it in his archive etc.), just not visible to users anymore.

I was also thinking of just using

createdAt

createdAt

which is coming from

timestamps: true

timestamps: true

and then somehow filter stories that are posted within 24h and display them to the user. Not really sure if that's the best way to go.

Any ideas/solutions/recommendations?

KP-C

Kevin Powell - Community•3y ago•

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Instagram clone | How to handle stories being visible only for 24h?

Title says it all. How would you handle Instagram stories being visible only 24h after being posted?

I'm working with mongooose. I found there is an

expires

expires

option available in second parameter of

mongoose.Schema()

mongoose.Schema()

import mongoose from 'mongoose'

const oneDay = 86400 // seconds

const storySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    author: { type: mongoose.SchemaTypes.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
    content: { type: [String], required: true }
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
    expires: oneDay // 👈 
  }
)

const Story = mongoose.models.Story || mongoose.model('Story', storySchema)

export default Story

import mongoose from 'mongoose'

const oneDay = 86400 // seconds

const storySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    author: { type: mongoose.SchemaTypes.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
    content: { type: [String], required: true }
  },
  {
    timestamps: true,
    expires: oneDay // 👈 
  }
)

const Story = mongoose.models.Story || mongoose.model('Story', storySchema)

export default Story

createdAt

createdAt

which is coming from

timestamps: true

timestamps: true

and then somehow filter stories that are posted within 24h and display them to the user. Not really sure if that's the best way to go.

Any ideas/solutions/recommendations?

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