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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Targeting the documents using ID

Next up, I'm going to write the other statement. We're going to target the Users collection once again. Now, we're going to go ahead and use the findOneAndDelete method. In this particular case, I am going to be deleting the Todo where the _id equals the ObjectId I have copied to the clipboard, which means I need to create a new ObjectID, and I also need to go ahead and pass in the value from the clipboard inside of quotes.

db.collection('Users').deleteMany({name: 'Andrew'});

db.collection('Users').findOneAndDelete({
  _id: new ObjectID("5a86978929ed740ca87e5c31")
})

Either single or double would work. Make sure the capitalization of ObjectID is identical to what you have defined, otherwise this creation will ...

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