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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:13:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: Node.js client for CouchDB
From: Pulkit Singhal <pulkitsinghal@gmail.com>
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Ahoy Mark! Thank you so much for validating that I'm not the 1st person
ever who thought of reusing futon.

Some follow-up Qs:

1) The code that you modularized, rewrote and purged sync from ...Is it
available on GitHub or somewhere else in the open source community by any
chance?

2) What do you mean here?
"no benefit in my code to having the same code run both places"

3) I'm not sure if nano is offering authN or https so I'm still looking
into that. I had started out rolling my own non-re-usable solution by using
Mikeal's request module but I wised up and am looking into Nano now. Slowly
but surely. Cradle's next, thanks to all the folk who pointed it out.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mark Hahn <mark@hahnca.com> wrote:

> > I find myself wondering why someone hasn't simply taken the javascript
> code that
> runs Futon and dropped it into a node.js module?
>
> I did something like that.  I wrote a module that was a clone of jQuery
> that just implemented the ajax with http.requests.  Then I made minor mods
> to the jquery code supplied with futon to make it a module.   So I was able
> to write DB code that ran on the server and client with no mods.
>
> I found 3 reasons to not do this ...
>
> 1) The futon driver used a sync ajax call which was impossible to implement
> in node.  I had to rewrite some of the code.  The person at microsoft who
> decided to include an sync call should be shot, as well as the futon coder
> who used it.
>
> 2) The futon driver used non-standard callback returns.  Different
> callbacks were used for success and error.
>
> 3) I discovered there was no benefit in my code to having the same code run
> both places.
>
> So I switched to nano.  I love nano. I'm using rpc's over socket.io to get
> db access from browser.
>

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