liber

Liber makes using CouchDB not only easier to build but also shemaless. It is built on nano and inspired by AngularJS-Resource. Principles:

• Minimalistic: Keep functions you would be using(view generation etc.) once out of this one. CouchDB's api is simple - do them using nano.
• Shemaless: NoSQL is shemaless why should a driver differ.
• Expectedness: Don't try to squeeze features of a RDBMS out of CouchDB, ergo don't generate anything automatically in the background. Be in control and know whats happening.

Installation

Liber is nothing but a extended api for nano so for using it you also need the latter - it's good to have anyways working with CouchDB:

npm install liber nano

Getting started

to set liber up

var nano = require('nano')('http://localhost:5984/mydatabase');
var Liber = require('liber')(db); //alias for document

now... live a simpler life

Liber.getOne('bobs_id', function (err, bob) {
  bob.age++;
  bob.save(function (err, newBob) {
    //newBob == bob;
  });
});

Inheritance

function User(data) {
  this.superClass.call(this, data); // to give more flexibility
                                    // to construction process
  this.kind = 'user';
  this.fullName = this.lastName + ', ' + this.firstName;
}
 
User = Liber.inherit(User, {
  changePassword: function () { ... }
}, {
  'viewShortcuts': {
    'byLastName': ['myDesignDoc', 'usersByLastName']
  }
});
 
User.get('anId', cb);
/*
  get by id
  Note: Liber doesn't validate the kind or type so you could
  fetch an User from any other Liber class.
*/
 
User.getByLastName('Smith', cb);
// get user from an generated view getter. Result is an array.
 
User.getOneByLastName('Smith', cb);
// same as the last one but result is User object.
 

API: Class methods

Liber.inherit(constructor, prototype, options)

Liber.parse(data)

Liber.get(params, callback)

Liber.getOne(id, [params, callback])

Liber.getFromView(design, view, params, callback)

Liber.getOneFromView(design, view, params, callback)

API: Instance methods

Doc.save(callback)

Doc.insert(callback)

Doc.destroy(callback)

API: Options

View shortcuts: viewShortcuts

Generates methods to access views. Needs array of parameters to concat to the beginning of parameters of method calls. Let's say User class declaration has a options of:

{
  'viewShortcuts': {
    'fromMyDesign': ['myDesignDoc'],
    'byLastName': ['myDesignDoc', 'usersByLastName'],
    'admins': ['myDesignDoc', 'usersByStatus', 'admin']
  }
}

then

User.getOneFromMyDesign('usersByAddress', 'broad way');
// == User.getOneFromView('myDesignDoc', 'usersByAddress', 'broad way');
 
User.getByLastName('smith');
// == User.getFromView('myDesignDoc', 'usersByLastName', 'smith');
 
User.getAdmins();
// == User.getFromView('myDesignDoc', 'usersByStatus', 'admin');

Although linguistically a bit off, the getOneAdmins would limit latter to first match. The shortcuts are very cheap to make so you could fix that by duplicating 'admins' with an 'admin' so you'll have both get(One)Admin and get(One)Admins.