Connect to Cloudant from NodeJS running locally - For Test Purpose only

Cloudant_NodeJS_Local_Connection.md

Prereqs

npm install dotenv 

Cloudant (DB)

Before querying the cloudant db, Create a cloudant DB and follow the steps below, create a .env file with your Cloudant credentials in the root directory.

 cloudant_username=myaccount # Replace myaccount with your account name
 cloudant_password='secret'  # Replace secret with your password

or on a terminal

 echo "/.env"                       >> .gitignore   # Do not track .env in the revision history
 echo "cloudant_username=myaccount" >  .env         # Replace myaccount with your account name
 echo "cloudant_password='secret'"  >> .env         # Replace secret with your password

Credentials in app.js

  require('dotenv').load();

 // Load the Cloudant library.
 var Cloudant = require('cloudant');

  var username = process.env.cloudant_username;
  var password = process.env.cloudant_password;

  // Initialize the library 
  var cloudant = Cloudant({
      account: username,
      password: password
  });