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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Todo.findByIdAndRemove method

Another method is Todo.findByIdAndRemove. The findByIdAndRemove method works just like findById: you pass in the ID as the argument and it removes it. Now, both of these are going to return the doc and that is exactly what we want. There's no need to run both of them, we can just run one. The Todo.findByIdAndRemove method, this is going to let us remove a Todo ById, some ID like asdf, and we're going to be able to attach a then method providing our callback, and the callback is going to get the doc back. You could call it doc, or in this case we can call it todo since it is a Todo item:

Todo.findByIdAndRemove('asdf').then((todo) => {
    
});

Now that we have this in place, we just need to create a Todo, since we ...

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