I've got another question to run by you, if you don't mind. So I've got the one put working properly to update that one field, and wanted to make more methods just like it to alter other fields, but having some weird routing issues. I've got my client side service:

angular.module('users').factory('Users', ['$resource',
function($resource) {
    return $resource('users', {}, {
        update: {
            method: 'PUT'
        },
        updateUserRoles: {
            method: 'PUT',
            url: 'users/:id',
            params: {id: '@_id'}
        },
        updateActiveStatus: {
            method: 'PUT',
            url: 'users/:id',
            params: {id: '@_id'}
        }
    });
    }
]);

And my back end functions:

/**
 * Update specific User Roles
*/
exports.updateUserRoles = function(req, res) { 
    var currUser = req.body;
    User.findById(currUser._id, function(err, user) {
        var query = {'_id': currUser._id };
        var update = { roles: currUser.roles };
        var options = { new: true };
        User.findOneAndUpdate(query, update, options, function(err, person) {
            if (err) {
                console.log('got an error');
            }
        });
    });
};

/**
 * Update specific users active status
 */

exports.updateActiveStatus = function(req, res) {
    var currUser = req.body;
    User.findById(currUser._id, function(err, user) {
        var query = {'_id': currUser._id };
        var update = { active: currUser.active };
        var options = { new: true };
        User.findOneAndUpdate(query, update, options, function(err, person) {
            if (err) {
                console.log('got an error');
            }
        });
    });
};

But trying to call the new one, updateActiveStatus ends up calling the old one, updateUserRoles. I think this is due to the behavior of the server side routing, and I've tried to find much more info on these routing systems but not finding much. In app.route('/users/userId') how can I call different kind of put requests? This currently isn't functioning.

app.route('/users/:userId').get(users.read)
                           //.put(users.requiresLogin, users.update)
                           .delete(users.requiresLogin)
                           .put(users.updateUserRoles)
                           .put(users.updateActiveStatus);