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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating data

You know how to insert, delete, and fetch documents out of MongoDB. In this section, you're going to learn how to update documents in your MongoDB collections. To kick things off, as usual, we're going to duplicate the last script we wrote, and we'll update it for this section.

I'm going to duplicate the mongodb-delete file, renaming it to mongodb-update.js, and this is where we'll write our update statements. I'm also going to delete all of the statements we wrote, which is the deleted data. Now that we have this in place, we can explore the one method we'll be looking at in this section. This one is called findOneAndUpdate. It's kind of similar to findOneAndDelete. It lets us update an item and get the new document back. So if I update a Todo, set it as completed equal to true, I will get that document back in the response...

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