CouchDB Using Nano NPM
In my previous blog post, I did a quick intro to CouchDB. In this post, we will dive into writing some code that uses CouchDB. We will use NodeJS for this application. You could just as easily write this in C# or any language, but for this post I thought I’d play around with NodeJS.
I’ll start by initializing the directory.
npm init
Next, I’ll install TypeScript for our project.
npm install --save typescript ts-node
For the code, we are going to create a NodeJS Express application.
npm install --save-dev @types/node @types/express
Now it’s time to install Nano, which is an npm library for calling CouchDB.
npm install --save nano @types/nano
Now we can write some simple NodeJS endpoints for interacting with CouchDB.
First, we will write an endpoint that returns all CouchDB databases.
Next, we will write an endpoint that returns all documents in the test1 database.
The code to interact with CouchDB is pretty straightforward. In my next post, we will create some items and try some more advanced queries.
