Advanced Node.js Development

Todo.find method

Now, I understand you've already used Todo.find before but we are going to talk about a few other things. So for the moment we will be starting with that. Todo.find lets you query as many Todos as you like. You can pass in no arguments to get all your Todos back, or you can query by anything. We're going to query by _id. Now, Mongoose is fantastic, it doesn't require you to pass in ObjectIDs, as it can actually do that for you. In this case, what we have is perfectly valid. We pass in a string as the value, and Mongoose is going to take that string, it's going to convert it to an ObjectID, and then it's going to run the query. This means we don't need to manually convert our string into an ObjectID. Now, after we make the ...