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 [...]
Connect has a session middleware that has a pluggable API for session storage. There is a session store for redis, written by TJ Holowaychuk, who maintains both connect and express. There are also session stores for CouchDB, MongoDB, and postgresql that look to be well-maintained and ready for production use. These are great, but I [...]
A function, all by itself: This is the escapeHTML() function from Backbone.js, which is hidden behind a closure. Thankfully it’s now in the latest version of Underscore.js, which is depended upon by Backbone. If an old version of underscore was being used and escapeHTML() was the one missing utility function that a developer needed, putting [...]