Manage Couch Apps

couchapps.md

We could manage them with Grunt in Angular apps, but i think that it would be nicer to use a script that is suitable also for the backend. I found the following possibilities:

• https://github.com/benoitc/erica
• https://github.com/mikeal/node.couchapp.js
• https://github.com/couchapp/couchapp

I am not fully convinced about any of them. erica and node.couchapp have many issues. Specifically, erica seems to not be very active. couchapp seems fine, but the documentation server seems to be down now.

Couchapp is oriented to have an app developed via couch documents. But it can be used to simply manage views. Documentation can be found here

On the other hand Grunt will match more with a pure js development.

couchapp allows to clone views already existing on the database, so one can do experiments on the database and then clone the result

see also https://gist.github.com/emig/5659c5725d6f2d2106d2