CouchDB can serve web applications straight from the database. CouchApp is a set of tools and sane defaults for creating a CouchDB application.
Installing CouchApp gives you a tool to create and distribute CouchDB applications. In this sense it's similar to django or rails' command line tool.
A CouchApp is simply a set of attachments and functions that will be synced to a CouchDB design document, the CouchApp tool allows you to edit these as files and then /push/ them to your database.
To help you get up and running, the CouchApp tool can generate a vanilla project with some sane defaults.
Render HTML documents using JavaScript templates run by CouchDB. You'll get parallelism and cacheability, using only HTML and JS. Building standalone CouchDB applications according to correct principles affords you options not found on other platforms.
CouchDB's replication means that programs running locally, can still be social. Applications control replication data-flows, so publishing messages and subscribing to other people is easy. Your users will see the benefits of the web without the hassle of requiring always-on connectivity.
Couchapp requires Python 2.5x or sup. To install couchapp using easy_install you must make sure you have a recent version of distribute installed:
$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ easy_install pip
To install or upgrade to the latest released version of couchapp:
$ pip install couchapp
To install/upgrade development version :
$ pip install http+git://github.com/couchapp/couchapp.git#egg=Couchapp
Note: some installations need to use sudo command beafore each command line.
To install on windows follow instructions here .
More installion options on the website.
Read the tutorial.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- couchapp command line usage
- Extend couchapp command line
- CouchApps with DesktopCouch
- List of CouchApps
- Video Tutorials and Screencasts
- Roadmap
- CouchApp Garden
- Mailing List
- Contributing to CouchApp
- Some development notes
- Interactive Docs
- Instruction on how to install this.pages app on your own machine