Any application that uses CouchDB as a pure database doesn't need show and list handlers. They are simply useless, in fact I didn't implement (yet) them in ElephantOnCouch library because I don't see any use case for them. And I'm not sure if I will never implement them, probably not. If you are using Ruby, Python, PHP, you'll never produce HTML directly from CouchDB, because there are frameworks in plenty with template engines aimed to do the job. I don't know the history about show and list, but they remember me Lotus Domino. Of course you need them if you are developing a CouchApp.
-Filippo On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > just watched Joan Touzet presentation > ( > https://speakerdeck.com/wohali/10-common-misconceptions-about-apache-couchdb > ) > On slide 27 she says: > > "... show/list is the last resort ..." > "... it is _not_ for rendering images (ok) html (?) ..." > "... show/list is ugly ...should probably be deprecated ..." > > I like the concept of show/list and would like to know > what the community thinks. > > > Regards > Thomas
