The API endpoint to delete a user is declared in the following route.
mern-skeleton/server/routes/user.routes.js:
router.route('/api/users/:userId').delete(userCtrl.remove)
When the Express app gets a DELETE request at '/api/users/:userId', similar to the read and update, it first loads the user by ID, and then the remove controller function is executed.
mern-skeleton/server/controllers/user.controller.js:
const remove = (req, res, next) => { let user = req.profile user.remove((err, deletedUser) => { if (err) { return res.status(400).json({ error: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err) }) } deletedUser.hashed_password = undefined deletedUser.salt = undefined res.json(deletedUser) })}
The remove function retrieves the user from req.profile ...
