If you want a feel where you can go with couchapps, checkout Max Ogden's datacouch project:
https://github.com/maxogden/datacouch While not purely couchapp, it shows the way on how to move past the boundaries of the traditional couchapp model. While Mikeal may be tired of doing backflips, I don't mind. The first couple of backflips you might hit your head, but then they become easy and you might find them invigorating as well. :) Ryan On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 8, 2011, at November 8, 20118:47 AM, john.tiger wrote: > >> On 11/07/11 15:14, Mikeal Rogers wrote: >>> I wrote node-couchapp and i don't even remember what those flags did. i >>> have since changed the command line api. >>> >>> couchapp push app.jshttp://localhost:5984/db >> >> Thks. Wow, this is so simple and works great. >> >> Now a question: since making a couch app is so easy, why are not more >> people using it ? Are couch apps limited versus using a full MVC backend >> (ie Express, Strata, ..) > > There are definitely limitations, pulling info in to the page that isn't in > your database isn't doable, _list and _show are pretty slow so you're limited > to single page apps if you want to keep things really fast. > > For simple things, nothing is simpler than a couchapp, but as your app gets > more complex you're going to start doing backflips to get it to fit in to the > couchapp model. > > -Mikeal
