Question

I’m trying to access my couchdb from a node.js server.

I’ve followed the nodejs tutorial, and have set up this simple nodejs server:

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(80, "127.0.0.1");
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:80/');

I would like to make RESTful http and POST requests to the nodejs server. The nodejs server should then be able to make GET/POST request to the Couchdb, which responds with JSON objects.

How might I do this?

Answer 1

I have a module (node-couchdb-api) I’ve written for this exact purpose. It has no ORM or other features like that, it’s just a simple wrapper for the HTTP API that CouchDB offers. It even follows the conventions established by Node.JS for async callbacks, making your code that much more consistent all-around. 🙂