couchdb-bootstrap

CouchDB Bootstrap

Bootstrap CouchDB database:

• Configure CouchDB
• Create Databases unless they exist
• Setup _security Settings
• Deploy (Design) Documents, Replications and Users

Directory

/path/to/my/project/couchdb
├── _config.json
├── _users
│   ├── alice.json
│   └── bob.json
├── alicedb
│   └── _security.json
└── bobdb
    ├── _design
    │   └── myapp
    │       ├── validate_doc_update.js
    │       └── views
    │           └── by-date
    │               ├── map.js
    │               └── reduce
    └── _security.json

See couch-compile for more details about the CouchDB filesystem mapping used for deploying users, design documents, normal documents and replications.

API

var bootstrap = require('couchdb-bootstrap')
bootstrap('http://localhost:5984', 'project/couchdb', function(error, response) {
  // here we go
})

CLI

couchdb-bootstrap http://localhost:5984 /path/to/my/project/couchdb

Tests

npm test