> 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.
