March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Content preview from Advanced Node.js Development
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The findOneAndDelete method
Most of the time, when I'm deleting a document, I only have the ID. This means that I don't exactly know what the text is or the completed status, and that can be really useful depending on your user interface. For example, if I delete a Todo, maybe I want to show that next, saying You deleted the Todo that says Eat lunch, with a little undo button in case they didn't mean to take that action. Getting the data back as well as deleting it can be really useful.
In order to explore findOneAndDelete, we're going to once again target the Todo where the text equals Eat lunch. I'm going to go ahead and comment out deleteOne, and next we can get started by accessing the appropriate collection. The method is called findOneAndDelete ...