Hi Dulanga, glad you found your way to the CouchDB mailing list. Welcome :)
CouchDB is a database written in Erlang with an HTTP API - that makes it a great fit for web applications that don't need a server side layer with a database driver in between. Our Project Fauxton (like a modern PHP MyAdmin) makes use of that fact. Many of us hang out in freenode in #couchdb-dev including myself. Whenever you get stuck, feel free to ask - if no one is online (e.g. I was travelling this week) feel free to ask on the dev ML. We are all happy to help each other in the project :) If you are using windows: I am not a Windows expert - you will probably have to use a bash emulator like "git bash" to boot the dev environment. Getting started: For this project you will need to install at least CouchDB 1.x, an Ubuntu package (with installation instructions) is at https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/stable Additionally you need to install Node.js 0.10 or 0.12 (install from https://nodejs.org) Booting Fauxton and first steps (type without the $): booting CouchDB: $ sudo couchdb in another terminal, clone the admin interface: $ git clone https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton go to Fauxton: $ cd couchdb-fauxton install dependencies: $ npm install $ npm install -g grunt grunt-cli boot the app: $ grunt dev Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000 - you should see a red/gray/black interface That was a lot of input and especially if you are using Linux the first time and followed the instructions you have archived a lot! As first step, try to create a database and a document now using the web interface (PS we are happy about any usability feedback). :) I think you have your dev environment for CouchDB ready now. What's next: If everything works we will take a look at Fauxtons code structure and how it works. We will also talk about the features of the dashboard. Let's find a date for a chat after you took a first look how Fauxton looks like. We are having our weekly meeting this Wednesday, 20:00GMT (http://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2015-03-14/20:00) in IRC on freenode (see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAJ1bcfEKOh4nvoxUqvcAcUFgg96w-JqHEefpi%2BWzazKFUPXNCg%40mail.gmail.com%3E) . Feel free to join us! I will be around 1hr before if you want to chat with me before. Looking forward to work with you, Robert On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Dulanga Sashika <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am Dulanga Sashika and I am a final year undergraduate student at > Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Moratuwa, Sri > Lanka. I am really interested in java, java script, web applications, > algorithms, data mining and machine learning. I have 6 months of training > experience at Proavos (pvt) Ltd. and in there I worked on a web application > that used java, JEE and Spring Framework. My final year project also a web > related application and I used same technologies I mentioned above for > that. I am really interested in this project because I have a good > experience with web applications and I love work with javascript. I am > looking forward to contribute to this project in this summer. I like to > know more detail about this project and if you can, please guide me to > start working on this project. > > Thank you. > > W. A. Dulanga Sashika, > Undergraduate Student, > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > University of Moratuwa.
