Advanced Node.js Development

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'); ...