Advanced Node.js Development

Qureying todos by id

The first thing we need to do is remove everything from our query object; we no longer want to query by the completed value. Instead, we're going to query by the _id property.

Now, in order to illustrate this, I'm going to grab the ID of the Todo with the completed value of false from the Terminal. I'm going to copy it using command + C. If you're on Windows or Linux, you might need to right-click after highlighting the ID, and click Copy text. Now that I have the text inside of the clipboard, I can head over to the query itself. Now, if we try to add the ID like this:

db.collection('Todos').find({_id: ''}).toArray().then((docs) => {

It is not going to work as expected because what we have inside of the ID property is ...