By: Alba Herrerías Published: 14 December 2022 We are thrilled to announce the release of PouchDB's new major version 8.0.0. For a full changelog from 7.3.1 to 8.0.0, please see the releases page or view the latest commits. Here are the hig…
By: Nolan Lawson Published: 05 March 2015 One of the trickiest aspects of PouchDB is that its API is asynchronous. I see no shortage of confused questions on Stack Overflow, Github, and IRC, and most often they stem from a misunderstanding
By: Nolan Lawson Published: 17 June 2014 This is not a blog post per se, but more of a list of tips and tricks to get the most out of your PouchDB experience. There are a lot of PouchDB anti-patterns floating around out there on the Interne…
In this tutorial we will write a basic Todo web application based on TodoMVC that syncs to an online CouchDB server. It should take around 10 minutes. Prefer video tutorials? This guide is available in video format: We will start with a tem…
A list of known products and services that are using PouchDB. Newt lets you read, listen and write thousands of books across devices natively. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS & web. Its backed is powered by CouchDB and it use…
Below is a list of known plugins, tools and projects can be used with PouchDB. Revives the allDbs() function, which lists all PouchDB databases. Plugin for CouchDB's authentication system. Allows decentralized authentication and access cont…
Welcome to the PouchDB guide! Consider this your starting point for anything and everything related to the world of PouchDB and CouchDB. For a quicker TodoMVC-based tutorial, you can also check out the "Getting Started" guide. Feel free to
PouchDB provides a fully asynchronous API. This ensures that when you talk to PouchDB, the UI doesn't stutter, because the DOM is not being blocked by database operations. However, working with asynchronous code can be very complex, especia…
PouchDB databases come in two flavors: local and remote. To create a local database, you simply call new PouchDB and give it a name: You can see a live example of this code. To create a remote database, you call new PouchDB and give it a pa…
As we saw in the past two chapters, working with PouchDB documents can be tricky, because you have to manage the revision identifier _rev. Now that we understand promises, though, there are few techniques we can use to make our code more el…
Map/reduce queries, also known as the query() API, are one of the most powerful features in PouchDB. However, they can be quite tricky to use, and so this guide is designed to dispell some of the mysteries around them. The first thing to un…
Installing PouchDB is easy. There are a few different ways to do it: Download the latest pouchdb-9.0.0.min.js from the big green button above. Then in your index.html: In your tsconfig.json activate allowSyntheticDefaultImports: You can ins…