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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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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 documents

In this section, you're going to learn how to delete documents from your MongoDB collections. Before we get into that, in order to explore the methods that let us delete multiple documents or just one, we want to create a few more Todos. Currently, the Todos collection only has two items, and we're going to need a few more in order to play around with all these methods involving deletion.

Now, I do have two. I'm going to go ahead and create a third by right-clicking and then going to Insert Document.... We'll make a new document with a text property equal to something like Eat lunch, and we'll set completed equal to false:

{
   text: 'Eat lunch',
   completed: false
}

Now before we save this, I am going to copy it to the clipboard. We're going to create a few duplicate Todos so we can see how we can delete items based...

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