Mongoose expires property not working properly

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So it turns out when I was testing using the expires property in Mongoose, I successfully set a TTL index in the database, but d

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Modifying your Mongoose schema won't modify an existing index, so you need to manually drop the TTL index and restart your app to re-create the index using the current definition.

db.sampletexts.dropIndex('createdAt_1')