Node-js Delete From MongoDb-new

In this tutorial, we are going to delete documents (records) from a collection (table) in MongoDB via Node.Js. There are two ways to delete documentation deleting document one by one and delete all the matched records in one go.

Topics Covered 

  • Delete One – Delete single document from matched documents in a Collection
  • Delete Many – Delete all matched documents from Collection

Delete One – Delete single document from matched documents in a Collection

We have lot of documents in a collection, we will match the documents and delete the single document out of the multiple documents that we match using deleteOne().

findone.js

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var url = "mongodb://localhost:27017/college";

MongoClient.connect(url, function(err, db) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var myquery = {  name: 'Rohit' };
  db.collection("students").deleteOne(myquery, function(err, obj) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log("1 document deleted");
    db.close();
  });
});

Delete Many – Delete all matched documents from Collection

We will match document in the collection and delete all the documents that match using deletemany().

var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var url = "mongodb://localhost:27017/college";

MongoClient.connect(url, function(err, db) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var myquery = { name: /^O/ };
  db.collection("students").deleteMany(myquery, function(err, obj) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(obj.result.n + " document(s) deleted");
    db.close();
  });
});

 

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