Strapi 4 - lifecycle hook console log

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.25.5
  • Operating System: macOS
  • Database: SQLlite
  • Node Version: 20.10.0
  • NPM Version: -
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.21

I’ve got a simple lifecycle hook in my “demo” api. So in the directory src > api > demo I have created a file called “lifecycles.ts”. Here I have added the following lifecycle hook, that just updates the user field with the value of the authenticated user. While this part of the code works, it doesn’t log “test” in my console. Why is that?

module.exports = {
    async beforeCreate(event) {
        const user = event.params.context.state.user
        event.params.data.user = user.id
        console.log("test")
    },
}
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A small follow-up, on this page I saw that “lifecycles.ts” should be in src > api > demo > content-types > demo. When I move the file over here I do see “test” in the console. So problem resolved you’d think… But, Strapi being Strapi, this change comes with its own problem. Since when I move the file over here, the event.params.context.state object is empty.

It most surely has to do with the flow of the request. Is the lifecycles.ts file in the (...)/content-types/demo directory applied on the route policy? route middleware? or global middleware? Can someone point me to this in the documentation? And still… How does that influence the display of the console.log :sweat_smile:

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Still don’t know why the console log is not showing up. But I did discover that the location of the lifecycle.ts file has been changed by a version update from Strapi 3 to Strapi 4. So most likely, the code inside the lifecycle.ts should be refactored a little bit.