April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
8h 54m
English
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Day 1: CRUD, Fauxton, and cURL Redux
Today we’re going to kick-start our CouchDB exploration by using CouchDB’s friendly Fauxton web interface to perform basic CRUD operations. After that, we’ll revisit cURL to make REST calls. All libraries and drivers for CouchDB end up sending REST requests under the hood, so it makes sense to start by understanding how they work.
Settling into CouchDB with Fauxton
CouchDB comes with a useful web interface called Fauxton (it was called Futon in pre-2.0 releases). Once you have CouchDB installed and running, open a web browser to http://localhost:5984/_utils/. This will open the landing page shown in the figure that follows.
Before we can start working with documents, we need to create a database to house ...