Delete all list items with jsom

Today I needed to “clean” a list, meaning to remove all list items. For some time ago I wrote a post about different ways of removing list items in bulk: Server Object Model, SPLinq and RPC.  This time I had only the web browser. So I tried the jsom way. By the way, the javascript documentation for jsom on msdn is getting really good. Don’t miss that: How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013.

Now here comes theworking code I used to remove all items in my list:

var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current(),
   list = ctx.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle('MyList'),
   query = new SP.CamlQuery(),
   items = list.getItems(query);
ctx.load(items, "Include(Id)");
ctx.executeQueryAsync(function () {
    var enumerator = items.getEnumerator(),
        simpleArray = [];
    while (enumerator.moveNext()) {
        simpleArray.push(enumerator.get_current());
    }
    for (var s in simpleArray) {
        simpleArray[s].deleteObject();
    }
    ctx.executeQueryAsync();
});

Enjoy