That's the theory, so let's see it in action and let a user delete their account. To follow the approach we've been taking through this application, we'll have a page displaying a form and a form handler.
The routes in app.js that we'll use for this are:
app.get('/user/delete', user.confirmDelete); // delete current user form
app.post('/user/delete', user.doDelete); // Delete current user actionBefore a user deletes the account we want to ask them to confirm this, in case they clicked on the link by accident. So we create a new view as views/user-delete-form.jade:
h1= title
p #{name}, are you sure you want to permanently delete your account? The email address on this account is #{email}
form(id="formUserDelete", method="post", action="")
input(type="hidden", name="_id", id="_id", value="#{_id}")
input(type="submit", value="Yes, please delete it!")And create a controller to map it to the route in routes/user.js:
// GET user delete...