Node.js & Express From Scratch [Part 7] - Update & Delete Articles

In this video we will add the functionality to update and delete articles in MongoDB. We will also work with jQuery and Ajax to make a safe delete request

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[wshorrock]

you can add "pretty : true" to the JSON object passed into your .pug file and it will add horizontal and inline spacing.
This will save you having to add breaks between elements and clean up the code in your .pug file

[marktwain]

Great series.
Adding some kind of authentication functionality would actually be extremely useful, if not necessary.
Furthermore, you forgot to include a tutorial on how to dynamically change the active class of navbar's item, based on the current page.
Overall, the series was really educational and easy to understand.
Thanks for the amazing course, Brad!

[scottyzen]

You could also do :

$.ajax({
type : 'DELETE',
url : e.target.pathname,
success : function (res) {
alert('Deleting Article');
window.location.href = '/';
},
error: function (err) {
console.log(err);
}
});

[vixeven]

Completed. Wait for next one ;)
Nice job and thanks.

[MichaelAbebreseAgyeman]

Nice tuts Brad...I like the ajax delete style but u can still delete through form:

form(method='post' action='/article/'+ article._id)

It works...!

[fathersondiecast]

nice, looking forward to see where it goes from here

[Tm]

Hi there, thank you very much for this series. It helped me a lot with my school assignment.

[haniyahya]

Looking forward for the deployment as well! Thank you

[Unnamed]

for anyone coming across this video from the time of this message remove is being deprecated please use deleteOne, deleteMany, or bulkWrite instead. the delete one follows as showing with the parms taken in I recommend checking if this is changed if you are seeing this comment in the future

[ggforniteclips]

Hi. Do you know how I can validate that if a schema has a field as a foreign key it does not allow me to delete the record?

[socialartistTV]

Followed along and got the app like you did.

Would love to see how to deploy it online.

Thanks again.

[vishals]

Hey Brad, great tutorial as other ones, couldn't understand why not to use regular form post for delete operation ?

[shahinabdullayev]

HI! Thank you for great tutorial. I am learning with these videos. But in this part i encountered one problem. I followed all your instruction but after pressing Delete button, nothing isn't deleted and couldn't get to the home page. I have checked Chrome Console there is one error like this: $.ajax is not a function. I have installed ajax in node by "npm install ajax". What can I do? Thank in advance for your help!

[paolo-]

What is the difference between PUT and POST method when updating the database?

[maciejrusek]

Hi Brad :)
why are you using POST method instead of PUT to update article?

[mateva]

I am at the deleting articles part, however, after following along and then pressing delete in my browser nothing happens except in the url after id the browser adds a #; again nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[zrkmedia]

Thank you so much Brad! You are the man

[kamaboko]

Kaboom. Da bomb videos. Thanks for posting.

[Loppy]

I was getting the error "$.ajax is not a function", which is because jQuery-slim does not support ajax calls. To resolve, just use jquery-min instead of jquery-slim-min

[samsonwandah]

Thanks Man, Keep up the good work.God Bless