[COUCHDB-1894] Add experimental NodeJS query server

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: JavaScript View Server
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jan Lehnardt
• Created: 25/Sep/13 11:30
• Updated: 03/Oct/13 16:01
• Resolved: 03/Oct/13 16:01

Description

Let’s clean up and merge Jason Smith’s Node.js query server into ASF land and ship it as opt-in and experimental.

I’ve prepared a branch that does the following:

• remove fancy extra features like app server handlers and the visual debugger support for now
• make it a drop-in replacement for couchjs
• bundle the code in src/couchjs-node
• add a new query server language “nodejs” that people can use
• include sandbox.js from https://github.com/KlausTrainer/sandbox.js (not hooked up yet)

The query server is not installed by default and users can install them in two ways:

1. from source:

$ cd src/couchjs-node
$ npm link

2. from NPM:

$ npm install couchjs # add @1.x.x for once the module mirrors CouchDB version numbers for forward compat)

And then they can uncomment and update the [query_server] line in local.ini.

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Open work items on the view server:

• make it work with CLI tests
• fix remaining test cases in web test runner
• hook up sandbox.js from https://github.com/KlausTrainer/sandbox.js