eolas/Databases/MongoDB/Deleting_documents.md

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tags:
- Databases
- mongo_db
- node-js
- mongoose
---

# MongoDB: deleting a document from a collection

```js

async function deleteCourse(id) {
  const result = await Course.deleteOne({id: id})  
  console.log(result)
}
```

Use `findByIdAndRemove([id])` if you want to return the value that is deleted.

If we were to pass a query object that matches multiple documents in the database to `deleteOne` it would only delete the first document returned. To delete all use `deleteMany`.