Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Deleting

The API endpoint to delete a user is declared in the following route.

mern-skeleton/server/routes/user.routes.js:

router.route('/api/users/:userId').delete(userCtrl.remove)

When the Express app gets a DELETE request at '/api/users/:userId', similar to read and update, it loads the user by ID and then the remove controller function is executed.

mern-skeleton/server/controllers/user.controller.js:

const remove = async (req, res) => {  try {    let user = req.profile    let deletedUser = await user.remove()    deletedUser.hashed_password = undefined    deletedUser.salt = undefined    res.json(deletedUser)  } catch (err) {    return res.status(400).json({      error: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)    })  }}

The remove function retrieves the user from req.profile ...