PouchDB和CouchDB和Node Web Api服务器层？

Question

Just trying to spec out a new system. We want to build a mobile app with offline storage using react-native.

We were originally going to use node and create a web api layer that worked with a MongoDB. However after looking into offline storage we found PouchDB. But pouch has to use CouchDB. So we are considering using CouchDb and having a flat db layer with all our business and data logic modelled in the apps.

However there may be some server side things that we need to do (for example pulling other records from somewhere else in the organisation).

So can we deploy a web api using node alongside CouchDb? How would this work? Totally separate or in the same node process?

Answer 1

So can we deploy a web api using node alongside CouchDb?

Yes, of course.

How would this work?

I'm not sure about what solution suites your needs, but one solution is to develop a web app with this tech-stack: NodeJS/Express, CouchDB/PouchDB and ReactJS/MobX. One important point about CouchDB is that, you shouldn't think about it like any other database . Basically, you don't need any server-side code to talk to CouchDB, it can all be done on the client-side with PouchDB. The live sync of PouchDB is extremely convenient at handling offline/online storage. If you're considering ReactJS, take a look at MobX .