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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Set Up 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deleting a resource – DELETE /todos/:id


In this section, we're going to explore how to remove documents from our MongoDB collections using Mongoose. Then you're going to be responsible for filling out the delete route, which will let someone delete a Todo by the ID.

To get started we're going to duplicate that mongoose-queries file, calling the new file mongoose-remove. Inside of the file we can remove everything below our initial imports. I'm going to highlight everything in the file, including the uncommented-out code, remove it, and we end up with a file that looks like this:

const {ObjectID} = require('mongodb');

const {mongoose} = require('./../server/db/mongoose');
const {Todo} = require('./../server/models/todo');
const {User} = require('./../server/models/user');

Mongoose gives us three methods for deleting our records; the first one lets you delete multiple records.

Todo.remove method

This one is Todo.remove, and Todo.remove works kind of like Todo.find. You pass in a query and that...

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