View counter in strapi: With lifecycle hooks? But how to use them?

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I tried to implement an afterFindOne lifecycly-hook but I always get the success false.

I tried the following code:

module.exports = {
  lifecycles: {
    async afterFindOne(result, params, populate) {
      const article = strapi.query('article').findOne({ id: result.id });

      console.log('das ist ein test');
      console.log(article);

      await strapi.query('article').update(
        { id: article.id },
        { views: parseInt(article.views) + 1 }
      );
    }
  }
};

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?

When I try it with fix values in the update part (for example with id 1 and views 15) it works, so it seems that the query.findOne is not working correctly. Or does this hook produces an infinite loop?

Unfortunately I don’t know how to see console.log output in postman for test/debug.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Timo