Deleting all documents in Firestore collection

Question

I\'m looking for a way to clear an entire collection. I saw that there is a batch update option, but that would require me to know all of the document IDs in the collection.

Answer 1

You have to get all the documents then use batch to delete them in bulk P.S. i prefer try...catch syntax

    let deleteInBatch = async (query, size = 100) => {
    try{

        let batch = firestore().batch();

        //get documents
        let values = await query.get();
        if(values.size>0){
            values.foreach(value=> {
                batch.delete(value.ref);
            })

            //Delete the documents in bulk
            batch.commit();
            if(values.size>0){
                //Recusively call the function again to finish
                //deleting the rest of documents
                deleteInBatch(query,size);
            }
        }else{
            //exist function
            return;
        }
    }catch(err){
        throw err;
    }
}