How to drop a database with Mongoose?

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Yaron Naveh picture Yaron Naveh · Apr 10, 2012 · Viewed 102.7k times · Source

I'm preparing a database creation script in Node.js and Mongoose. How can I check if the database already exists, and if so, drop (delete) it using Mongoose?

I could not find a way to drop it with Mongoose.

Answer

drinchev picture drinchev · Apr 10, 2012

There is no method for dropping a collection from mongoose, the best you can do is remove the content of one :

Model.remove({}, function(err) { 
   console.log('collection removed') 
});

But there is a way to access the mongodb native javascript driver, which can be used for this

mongoose.connection.collections['collectionName'].drop( function(err) {
    console.log('collection dropped');
});

Warning

Make a backup before trying this in case anything goes wrong!

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