I use CouchApp and jQuery a lot with CouchDB while my collaborator and boss strictly uses the REST API via Python ( this could be any language, Python not required as a client, or just curl from the command line )I personally like jQuery and CouchApp has certainly made it much easier to write and manage views, although I wish I did not have to use CouchApp just for that.
In any case CouchDB by itself does not depend on jQuery. Having said that, it is true that the *.js libs that make up the client api's and tools around CouchDB could use a lot more documentation - usage of Couch would expand, IMHO, if these were better annotated. Nitin 37% of all statistics are made up on the spot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nitin Borwankar [email protected] On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > cinnebar wrote: > > > We would like to see CouchDB independant of jquery (or even python re > >> CouchApp for that matter) for standalone couchapps 'out of the box'. >> >> Given the very excellent http request api that is a fundamental aspect of >> CouchDB we consider that the current jquery dependancy is a major >> deterrent >> regarding general uptake of CouchDB. >> > > I don't believe CouchDB depends on jQuery. It's there if you want to use > it, but it's not required for anything AFAIK. CouchApp is a third party tool > written in Python, so yeah, you need Python if you want to use CouchApp. You > don't need to use CouchApp though, you can push design documents any way you > like. > > Nils Breunese. >
