Hi Benjamin, thanks for this interesting idea for a collection of simple things!! This thread could eventually be the starting point to some ad-hoc webpage on the new couchapp.org website, or whatever it will be. Probably some of them may be even useful for future ddoc.me development.
To give more immediate comprehension of these simple things however, I think it would be great to have a simple:) one-line meaningful description for each of them. Some time ago I found this hidden gem on github, developed by harthur: - https://github.com/harthur/costco: UI for bulk editing CouchDB docs: update, insert and delete SQL statements equivalent to manipulate your entire CouchDB instance --Giovanni P.S. Benjamin, I saw your homepage. Congratulations and thanks for your so long and impressive couch-evangelist experience! 2015-11-13 15:17 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Young <[email protected]>: > Hi all! > > My head is full (after over half a decade) of doing CouchApp stuff, and > I've got so much I want to share I keep putting it off until I've "got it > all sorted." :-P But no more!! ;) > > Here's one (of a countless host) of ideas / things / possible-actions for > this little group of CouchApp-ers to consider hacking on, improving, etc, > etc, etc. > > CouchApp development is (still) like hiking with rocks in your shoes. The > hike is still great! The vistas fabulous. The destination worth the trip. > However! It's still more painful than it should be. :( Which, consequently, > is why people don't often make it very far from the base camp... > > One situation is hacking together a simple CouchApp from a browser-not > something so advanced as what ddoc.me provides-but more like "copy/paste > JS into some JSON for a show or update." > > JSON (as you're all too well aware) doesn't support line breaks. > Consequently, one of the major pain points when working with JS in JSON is > escaping it to line breaks. Futon didn't do this. Fauxton still doesn't do > this. Neither of them have editors for "updates" or "shows" or anything > else CouchApp related. Ddoc.me (as mentioned) is fab for an "all in" > environment, but I literally just want a copy/paste JS to "\n" escaped, > JSON friendly field. :-P That's it. ;) > > For instance. Here's a small Webhook supporting CouchApp I wrote 2 years > ago (my how time flies...): http://github.com/bigbluehat/weblatch > > Today, I wanted to install it into a Cloudant database. It's so tiny > (smaller than this email...) that I didn't want to `git clone`, `couchapp > push . http://...`<http://...%60> the thing. I just wanted to copy/paste > the update function into the JSON editor...but of course, it doesn't do > "\n" escaping, and waiting on that to be supported is...not worth the wait. > > So...some options: > > - A small bl.ocks.org style service that takes GitHub and/or > Gist URLs and turns them into CouchApp ready .json files-if they have a _id > and/or .couchaprc maybe > > - A simple text field to paste JS into that outputs it as a "\n" > escaped string (this one's easiest) > > There are many more ideas beyond this (GitHub services, etc), but for now, > I just want to paste some JS somewhere and get some JSON friendly text > string on the other side. ;) > > k. I'm done for now. I hope to make more time to catch up on the other > threads, post more random thoughts from my fevered brain, and finally, > finally, finally get CouchApps on their feet...sans rocks. ;) > > Hug the family for me, > Benjamin > -- > http://bigbluehat.com/ >
