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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

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By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

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. Now in order to get started, we're going to be updating one of the items that we have inside of our Todos collection. If I view the documents, we currently...