Last week, I wrote a tutorial that walked through how to set up a CouchDB database on a self-hosted Ubuntu server. I talked about some of the benefits of going for a self-hosted approach over using a service like Cloudant. One of the big benefits of the CouchDB protocol is how portable it is. With […]
Creating a CouchDB Database on an Ubuntu Server (Digital Ocean)
One of the cool things about CouchDB is how portable it is. It can run just about anywhere and interact with other CouchDB style databases anywhere. Any database that speaks the CouchDB Replication Protocol will be able to interact with any other database that does the same. This is why we can use libraries like […]
Case Study: A Complex CouchDB/PouchDB Application in Ionic
Last week I wrote an article that gave a broad overview of the course software I built for the Elite Ionic course – a Progressive Web Application built with Ionic. This mostly detailed my approach to building it and any interesting issues I faced throughout the entire process. One point I did touch on was […]
Restricting Document Updates in CouchDB
CouchDB exposes a powerful REST API that allows you to interact with the database by making simple HTTP requests. The simplicity of CouchDB is one of its great features, but we might not always want to just blindly create or update documents. Perhaps we want to check that a user can only modify their own […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: Adding Comments
Over the past few weeks, we have been building out a simple blogging application that is built with Ionic 2, CouchDB, and PouchDB. We have made quite a lot of progress so far, and in this tutorial, we will be adding the finishing touches on the core functionality. We already have the ability to add […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: Adding Posts and Live Data Updates
Up until this point in the series, I have placed a heavy emphasis on the theory behind what we are doing, like how CouchDB works and why we would want to use PouchDB. In this tutorial, we are going to focus on building out the blogging application we are creating with Ionic 2, CouchDB, and […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: Why PouchDB?
In the last tutorial, we started a new project using CouchDB and Ionic 2. We are working towards building a simple blogging application, and so far we have our CouchDB database set up, along with a CouchDB MapReduce view to retrieve all of the posts in the database by the date they were published, and […]
Getting Familiar with CouchDB and Futon
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on writing a series of tutorials on how to use CouchDB and PouchDB in Ionic 2. This video tutorial is sort of an aside to that – I wanted to create a demonstration of creating CouchDB databases and playing around with the data a bit, just to […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: Starting a New Project
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been introducing some of the theory behind creating applications powered by CouchDB. As promised, this week we will finally start actually building something with it. Over the next few tutorials, we will be building a blogging application in Ionic 2 that uses CouchDB as its database and backend. […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: Querying Data with MapReduce
In the first tutorial of this series I introduced CouchDB at a high level and touched on why you might want to use CouchDB over some other options, and why I think it makes a great companion for Ionic 2 applications. We mostly talked about CouchDB at a conceptual level, but in this tutorial, I […]
CouchDB, PouchDB, and Ionic 2: An Introduction
Databases. The creatures that often live somewhere in the cloud and hoard all of the data for your application. Although they can be troublesome to work with, they allow you to turn your isolated application into one that can share and communicate with the world. There are many different options available, and different options are […]
Part 2: Creating a Multiple User App with Ionic 2, PouchDB & CouchDB
In the last tutorial we discussed some strategies for creating a multi-user app with PouchDB and CouchDB, specifically in the relation to the todo application created in this tutorial. If you are unfamiliar with PouchDB and CouchDB I would recommend reading this post before going any further. In short, PouchDB is used to store data […]
Creating a Multiple User App with PouchDB & CouchDB
In a previous tutorial I covered how to create an offline application that syncs with a remote database when online. We created a todo application that used PouchDB to store data locally, which synced with a remote CouchDB database. If you’re not already familiar with CouchDB, it is a document based NoSQL database (rather than […]
Offline Syncing in Ionic 2 with PouchDB & CouchDB
Since I started travelling around Australia I’ve tried to keep things pretty minimal. I got rid of all the clothes I didn’t need, shoes, kitchen ware, furniture, cleaning products and so on. Basically, I tried to get rid of everything I didn’t need… yet I still have 2 iPhones, an iPad, 3 Android phones, a […]