Glad to see this list pop up.
I have a question about using couchdb to serve an app which is not
javascript-reliant. In particular I'm wondering about generating HTML
pages from a number of queries.
I know show functions can render one (and only one) document. List
functions can render a view, so multiple documents. But when you need
to aggregate a number of these together to get a page, couchdb alone
seems to have no solution. For example, I'd like to be able to combine
into a single web page the output of a show function to render an
article, plus a list to render tags, another to render a page index, a
third to render the user information. To do this seems to require some
javascript on the client, or a server-side application in front of couchdb.
In theory a list function could do it but I am guessing the query and
the rendering for the components would have to be interleaved in a way
which doesn't make for easy composition.
I'd like to be proved wrong, because this seems like it would just be a
small step from what couchdb can do now. Am I wrong?
Cheers
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