Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

Deleting notes – destroy

Now, let's look at how to implement the /notes/destroy URL to delete notes.

To routes/notes.js, add the following router function:

// Ask to Delete note (destroy)router.get('/destroy', async (req, res, next) => {    var note = await notes.read(req.query.key);    res.render('notedestroy', {        title: note ? note.title : "",        notekey: req.query.key, note: note    });});

Destroying a note is a significant step if only because there's no trash can to retrieve it from if we make a mistake. Therefore, we want to ask the user whether they're sure they want to delete that note. In this case, we retrieve the note and then render the following page, displaying a question to ensure they do want to delete the note.

To the views directory, ...