Firebase V9 Firestore DELETE Document Using deleteDoc()

Learn how to delete a document from a collection in Firebase version 9 Cloud Firestore using the deleteDoc() method.

• Delete A Document from a collection → you’re here
• Delete A Field from a document

Here is the sample document from the cities collection in Cloud Firestore Database that I want to delete.

First, import Firestore Database and de-structure the three methods we need:

• getFirestore()
• doc()
• deleteDoc()

import { getFirestore, doc, deleteDoc } from "firebase/firestore";

Initialize Firestore Database and assign it to the constant db.

const db = getFirestore();

The deleteDoc() method takes one method as an argument to perform the delete operation which is

• doc()

The doc() method takes three arguments which are:

• database → db
• collection name → cities
• document ID → yftq9RGp4jWNSyBZ1D6L (ID of a document…