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Subject: Re: nodejs couchapp
From: Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:02:27 -0800
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On Nov 8, 2011, at November 8, 20118:47 AM, john.tiger wrote:

> On 11/07/11 15:14, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>> I wrote node-couchapp and i don't even remember what those flags did. =
i have since changed the command line api.
>>=20
>> couchapp push app.jshttp://localhost:5984/db
>=20
> Thks.  Wow, this is so simple and works great.
>=20
> Now a question:  since making a couch app is so easy, why are not more =
people using it ?  Are couch apps limited versus using a full MVC =
backend (ie Express, Strata, ..)

There are definitely limitations, pulling info in to the page that isn't =
in your database isn't doable, _list and _show are pretty slow so you're =
limited to single page apps if you want to keep things really fast.=20

For simple things, nothing is simpler than a couchapp, but as your app =
gets more complex you're going to start doing backflips to get it to fit =
in to the couchapp model.

-Mikeal=