In the spirit of reënergizing Futon, I open-sourced a plugin we use at Iris Couch, futon_couchdb.
https://github.com/iriscouch/futon_couchdb This plugin makes /_utils dynamic, serving any of * Mobile Futon if you are mobile (I know, user-agent sniffing is out of vogue) * Sammy Futon if you configure it, or use the Easter egg * Normal Futon The code and even the feature are quite bad. However it is an excellent example of how to make a CouchDB plugin. The entire project is 25 commits, and if you read the changes, you can learn many things: * Making a minimal Rebar (Erlang) project * Building such a project, "linking" against CouchDB. * Integrating the plugin (an http handler) into CouchDB * Supporting custom configuration options, and defining their defaults * Using files from a plugin-local private directory So if you are interested in CouchDB development, maybe it will help you get your feet wet. A more advanced example is pingquery_couchdb, with which the Erlang part of CouchDB "pings" the JavaScript part, and verifies the response. https://github.com/iriscouch/pingquery_couchdb -- Iris Couch
