How comes one can console.log data from a document in mongoDB/mongoose, but that data can not be saved to a variable?

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Hi there!

How comes one can console.log data from a document in mongoDB/mongoose, but that data can not be saved to a variable?

Or maybe I am doing it totally wrong?
I can res.json the document data as well, so it seems like I should be able to do common javascript actions with that information

Thank you so much!

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You’ll need to handle asynchronous operations in Mongoose appropriately. The documentation at Mongoose Docs will help you with this.
https://mongoosejs.com/docs/promises.html

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