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From: Quang Van <quangvvv@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:22:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: Node.js client for CouchDB
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Any good Nano vs Cradle comparisons?

I'm using cradle right now... and if a lot of people is recommending Nano
over cradle, I wonder why...

Thanks.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:25 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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