[Vuejs]-Deleting Firestore Document when ID is set to a name which is not pre-defined anywhere

by

3👍

✅

Update following your comment below (explaining that actually this.user.uid is not the id of the Firestore document)

So you should indeed execute a query and when you get the result of this query (in the then() method), delete the (unique) document returned by the query, as follows:

var query = db.collection('Users').where('user_id', '==', this.user.uid);

query.get()
.then(function(querySnapshot) {
    var docSnapshot = querySnapshot.docs[0];   // We get the first (and unique) document of the querySnapshot
    docSnapshot.ref.delete();
});

You don’t need to use a Query for that (using where() defines a Query).

You can just point to the document (i.e. define a DocumentReference) and call the delete() method, as follows.

db.collection('Users').doc(this.user.uid).delete();
👤Renaud Tarnec

Leave a comment