vue-pouch

Reactive Vue bindings for PouchDB using pouchdb-live-find.

Hint: vue-pouch is also available as a nuxt module. Please consider using nuxt for your next application.

Examples

Todo App with real-time 4-way data syncing: DOM <-> Vue <-> IndexedDB <-> CouchDB

Try this example here: https://buhrmi.github.io/vue-pouch/

<template>
  <div class="todos">
    <input v-model="message" placeholder="New Todo">
    <button @click="$pouch.post('todos', {message: message});message=''">Save Todo</button>
    <div v-for="todo in todos">
      <input v-model="todo.message" @change="$pouch.put('todos', todo)">
      <button @click="$pouch.remove('todos', todo)">Remove</button>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  export default {
    // VuePouch adds a `pouch` config option to all components.
    pouch: {
      // The simplest usage. queries all documents from the "todos" pouch database and assigns them to the "todos" vue property.
      todos: {/*empty selector*/}
    },
    created: function() {
      // Send all documents to the remote database, and stream changes in real-time
      this.$pouch.sync('todos', 'http://localhost:5984/todos');
    }
  }
</script>

Feedback when loading initial replication

<template>
  <div v-if="$pouch.loading.blog">Still loading... Relax.</div>
  <div v-else>Blog has been loaded.</div>
</template>

<script>
  export default {
    created: function() {
      this.$pouch.sync('blog', 'http://localhost:5984/blog');
    }
  }
</script>

Reactive & Live Selectors (Mango Queries)

<template>
  Show people that are <input v-model="age"> years old.
  <div v-for="person in people">
    {{ person.name }}
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  export default {
    data () {
      return {
        resultsPerPage: 25,
        currentPage: 1
      }
    },
    // Use the pouch property to configure the component to (reactively) read data from pouchdb.
    pouch: {
      // The function returns a Mango-like selector that is run against the `people` database.
      // The result of the query is assigned to the `people` property.
      people: function() {
        if (!this.age) return;
        return {age: this.age, type: "person"}
      },
      // You can also specify the database dynamically (local or remote), as well as limits, skip and sort order:
      peopleInOtherDatabase: function() {
        return {
          database: this.selectedDatabase, // you can pass a database string or a pouchdb instance
          selector: {type: "person"},
          sort: [{name: "asc"}],
          limit: this.resultsPerPage,
          skip: this.resultsPerPage * (this.currentPage - 1)
        }
      }
    }
  })
</script>

Single documents

If you only want to sync a single document that matches a selector, use first: true:

module.exports = {
  // ...
  pouch: {  
    projectDetails: function() {
      return {
        database: 'mydatabase',
        selector: {_id: this.selectedProjectId},
        first: true
      }
    }
  }
  // ...
}

User Authentication

<template>
  <div class="credentials">
    <button v-if="$pouch.hasAuth" @click="$pouch.resetAuth()">Reset Authentication</button>
    <button v-else @click="$pouch.useAuth('myname', 'mypassword')">Authenticate</button>
    <button @click="$pouch.createUser('myname', 'mypassword')">Create User</button>
    Your remote session name: {{ $pouch.session.name }}
    <div class="error" v-if="$pouch.authError">There was an error: {{ $pouch.authError }}</div>
  </div>
</template>

Installation

Install via npm:

npm install --save vue-pouch

The only requirement is that pouchdb-live-find is installed:

import PouchDB from 'pouchdb-browser'
PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-find'));
PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-live-find'));

If you want to use remote databases (CouchDB, Cloudant, etc.), you should also install the authentication plugin:

PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-authentication'));

Then, plug VuePouch into Vue:

Vue.use(require('vue-pouch'), {
  pouch: PouchDB,    // optional if `PouchDB` is available on the global object
  defaultDB:         // the database to use if none is specified in the pouch setting of the vue component
})

API

$pouch

$pouch is made available on all vue instances and has some helper functions. Note that this API is not stable and will probably change.

Methods

• $pouch.sync(localDatabase, remoteDatabase): Basically the same as PouchDB.sync(local, remote, {live: true, retry: true}). Also, if the browser has an active session cookie, it will fetch session data (username, etc) from the remote server. BONUS: If your remote database runs CouchDB 2.0 or higher, you can also specify a Mango Selector that is used to filter documents coming from the remote server.

For example

$pouch.sync('complaints', 'https:/42.233.1.44/complaints', {
  filter:'_selector',
  selector: {
    type: 'complaint',
    assignee: this.session.name
  }
})

• $pouch.push(localDatabase, remoteDatabase): Like localdb.replicate.to(remotedb, {live: true, retry: true}). Also, if the browser has an active session cookie, it will fetch session data (username, etc) from the remote server.
• $pouch.put/post/remove/get(database, ...): Same as db.put(...)
• $pouch.createUser(name, password): Create a user in the remote database and also start a new session.
• $pouch.useAuth(name, password): Set credentials to use to start a session with the remote server.
• $pouch.resetAuth(): Forgets the credentials, session data and session cookie.

Reactive Properties

• $pouch.loading: Contains an object with synced database names as the keys. The value of each key is true while the initial loading happens. This API is a little bit unreliable at the moment.
• $pouch.hasAuth: true, if VuePouch has credentials
• $pouch.authError: Contains the authentication error, if one occured (eg. when calling useAuth, createUser, etc).
• $pouch.session: Contains information about the current session with the remote database (eg. user name, roles, etc.)
• $pouch.errors: A json object containing errors that occured on databases. The object key is the name of the database, the value is the error.

Non-Reactive Properties

• vm.$databases: the pouchdb instances. shared across all components.