CouchJS is a command-line Node.js program. It is 100% compatible with Apache CouchDB's built-in JavaScript system.
By using CouchJS, you will get 100% CouchDB compatibility (the test suite completely passes) but your JavaScript environment is V8, or Node.js.
CouchJS is available as an npm module.
$ npm install -g couchjs
Install CouchDB. Install this package with npm. Confirm your couchjs install location.
$ which couchjs # Note, your path will be different from mine.
/home/jhs/node/bin/couchjs
Look at the CouchDB config for the JavaScript query server.
$ curl http://localhost:5984/_config/query_servers/javascript
"/home/jhs/couchdb/bin/couchjs /home/jhs/couchdb/share/couchdb/server/main.js"
Change that to this couchjs. Leave the second argument the same.
$ curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_config/query_servers/javascript \
-H content-type:application/json \
-d "\"`which couchjs` /home/jhs/couchdb/share/couchdb/server/main.js\""
Done!
JavaScript is decoupled from the CouchDB core. To do JavaScript stuff, CouchDB runs a normal Unix subprocess, couchjs. This subprocess is just a read-eval-print loop on standard i/o. CouchDB passes couchjs a file name, and that file contains the view server implementation.
This tool duplicates the "REPL" look and feel of couchjs and supports the exact same view server implementation.
I have no idea. I would not trust it for production use.
If you create a file, /tmp/couchjs.log then couchjs will output debugging messages there.
Apache 2.0
See the Apache 2.0 license.
FAQs
Drop-in replacement for CouchDB JavaScript view server
The npm package couchjs receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, couchjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that couchjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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