Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Deleting a game

An authenticated and authorized user will be able to delete any of the games they created on the application. To enable this feature, we will implement a delete game API in the backend. We will start by adding a DELETE route that allows an authorized maker to delete one of their own games, as shown in the following code:

mern-vrgame/server/routes/game.routes.js:

router.route('/api/games/:gameId')    .delete(authCtrl.requireSignin, gameCtrl.isMaker, gameCtrl.remove)

The flow of the controller method execution on the server, after receiving the DELETE request at api/games/:gameId, will be similar to the edit game API, with the final call made to the remove controller method instead of update.

The remove controller method deletes ...