PouchDB CouchDB

This is some sugar for PouchDB to make handling true CouchDB servers a little easier.

• Set a base url for all databases.
• Maintains instance-level authorization for all databases, with support for basic auth and cookies.
• Change authentication at any point, ensuring that all existing databases switch as well.
• Configure CouchDB.

Install

Grab a copy from NPM:

npm install pouchdb-couchdb --save

Usage

PouchDB traditionally returns a class to create databases from. PouchDB-CouchDB on the other hand returns a function to create those classes so that a base url and default options can be passed in.

var CouchDB = require("pouchdb-couchdb")("http://localhost:5984");
var db = new CouchDB("mydb");

For reference, here's how the same code would be accomplished using pure PouchDB. Keep in mind that this would need to be repeated for every database.

var PouchDB = require("pouchdb");
var db = new PouchDB("http://localhost:5984/mydb");

You have your class sign in and out of the database with the signIn() and signOut() methods. This will ensure the same authentication is applied for all databases created with this class.

CouchDB.signIn("user","password").then(function() {
  console.log("signed in!");

  return CouchDB.signOut();
}).then(function() {
  console.log("signed out!");
});