Hi Nadeeshaan and welcome to the CouchDB mailing list :) CouchDB is a database written in Erlang with an HTTP API. We have an Admin-Interface (think of PHP MyAdmin) which is a Single-Page-JavaScript MVC App. It started as a Backbone.js project, but we are currently migrating to React.js for performance reasons.
The CouchDB community is a very nice and inclusive community - I really enjoy being a part of it! I tried to write a short tutorial how you can get Fauxton running on your machine. Don't worry if you are stuck or have questions, we are happy to help! Getting started: It would be nice if you have Linux/Unix running on your machine (or something like "git bash" in place, but I a no expert in development on windows) so we can exchange code snippets for the console. Pre-requirements: For this project you will need to install at least CouchDB 1.x, an Ubuntu package (with installation instructions) is at https://launchpad.net/~couchdb/+archive/ubuntu/stable Additionally you need to install Node.js 0.10 or 0.12 (install from https://nodejs.org) Booting Fauxton and first steps (type without the $): after you have couchdb installed you start it with: $ couchdb if you have a permissions problem try: $ sudo couchdb in another terminal, clone the admin interface: $ git clone https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton go to Fauxton $ cd couchdb-fauxton install dependencies: $ npm install $ npm install -g grunt grunt-cli boot the app: $ grunt dev Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000 - you should see a red/gray/black interface That was a lot of input, you have a lot archived now! As first step, try to create a database and a document now using the web interface. :) If everything worked, we are ready for the second part, explaining revisions of documents. I am currently travelling but in general I am also on freenode in #couchdb-dev and can give you ad-hoc help and help troubleshooting. My nick is robertkowalski/rkowalski - I am also happy to share my screen if the problem is more complex. What's next: If everything works we will take a look at Fauxtons code structure and how it works. Additionally we will take a look at document revisions. Looking forward to work with you, Robert On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe <nadeeshaangunasin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I am Nadeeshaan and currently I am a final year Undergraduate at Department > of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I > did my Internship at WSO2 Lanka last year which is an open source products > related Company. I am so much passionate about involving in Open source > contribution and also I completed my GSOC 2014 Project Successfully ( > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-sept-2014/item/2282-reaching-the...) > . I have a sound knowledge on Java,Javascript,CSS,HTML, MySQL, Database > Administration, Machine Learning, Data Minng and web Development specially. > > I am so much interested in aforementioned project and I would like to > involve with this project idea. Therefore I would like to have bit more > information about the project and to have some guidance about getting > started with the project > > Cheers.... > > -- > Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa > Sri Lanka
