Drop Collection

You can delete a table, or collection as it is called in MongoDB, by using the drop() method.

The drop() method takes a callback function containing the error object and the delOK parameter which returns true if the collection was dropped successfully, otherwise it returns false.

Example

Delete the "customers" collection:

// Setup MongoDB connection
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var url = "mongodb://localhost:27017/";

MongoClient.connect(url, function(err, db) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var dbo = db.db("mydb");
  dbo.collection("customers").drop(function(err, delOK) {
    if (err) throw err;
    if (delOK) console.log("Collection deleted");
    db.close();
  });
});

Output

Collection deleted

db.dropCollection

You can also use the dropCollection() method to delete a table (collection).

The dropCollection() method takes two parameters: the name of the collection and a callback function.

Example

Delete the "customers" collection, using dropCollection():

// Same setup as previous example

dbo.dropCollection("customers", function(err, delOK) {
  if (err) throw err;
  if (delOK) console.log("Collection deleted");
  db.close();
});

Output

Collection deleted