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 […]
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: 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 […]
Syncing Data with PouchDB and Cloudant in Ionic 2
In previous articles I’ve broadly covered some local storage options for HTML5 mobile applications and more recently backend options for HTML5 mobile applications. Now I’m going to get a little more specific and cover a real world example of how to use PouchDB with Ionic 2, which encompasses both local storage and remote data storage. […]