RethinkDB: SELECT * FROM …table…

You can do the equivalent of “SELECT *” in RethinkDB by just selecting the table:

db.table('users')

Which returns the data:

If you want to use a WHERE clause, you can provide a JSON payload that matches what you want, or use Javascript.

The nice thing about this is you can ES6 arrow functions, so the code is fairly concise, for Javascript:

r.db('test')
 .table('users')
 .filter(
   (doc) => doc('last_name').eq('sieling') 
  );

r.db('test')
 .table('users')
 .filter({'last_name': 'sieling'})

The most difficult thing to get used to is that you can’t use “===”, “>=”, etc in your Javascript, since everything is functions.