I tried out hood.ie today after hearing about it a few times and I think it’s worth giving a shot, if you’re interested in rich web applications. It’s easy to install for what it does, which is set up a local node.js and couchdb environment with an admin interface. Deployment looks like it will be [...]
If you want to use Backbone.js’s extend function on your own class, all you have to do is this: Backbone’s extend function is the same between Backbone’s classes. It just uses the prototype it was called with. MyModel1 and MyModel2 in the following example would be equivalent:
Here’s a copy of the email I sent to the CouchDB users mailing list: I made a couple of npm (node.js) modules for editing CouchDB design documents that involves fewer files than python CouchApp, but like python CouchApp supports two-way sync. The function source is left intact when converting between JavaScript source and JSON. The [...]
I made a couple of small node.js modules to help me develop couchapps. CouchApp is two things: a concept and a tool. The concept is an application that runs on CouchDB, using its API. The API has three basic components for presenting data (it has others for editing data but that isn’t covered in this [...]
Update: @twitinsin points out that it’s still useful in the console for quickly declaring multiple variables. I developed the habit of always using var when I write JavaScript long ago. At some point I got in the habit of typing var even when I’m using a JavaScript console in node or in a browser. After [...]