MongoDB and Mongoose - Delete Many Documents with model.remove()

Affected page

The lesson at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/apis-and-microservices/mongodb-and-mongoose/delete-many-documents-with-model-remove doesn’t work with mongoose 6+ because now it just returns the deletedCount, which causes the code from server.js, lines 343 through 351, to fail.

Mongoose 6.0.1

Mongoose 5.4.13:

This would fix it:

if (data.ok === undefined) {    
    try {
        if ("object" === typeof data && Object.keys(data).length === 1) {
            // for mongoose v6
            data.ok = true;
            data.n = data.deletedCount;
        } else {
            // for mongoose v4
            data = JSON.parse(data);
        }
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e);
        return next(e);
    }
}

[13cbenjamin]

I would like to create a PR for this as I am a first time contributor and I reported this issue on the FCC forum. It will be a few hours until I can submit. I understand these are not assigned so if it’s still open when I’m home, I’ll gladly take it as my first contribution.

[skaparate]

I’ll create the PR 👍🏽