Unable to replicate database in pouchDB

Question

I'm trying a react native application using couchDB 2.1.1. PouchDB entry in package json looks like this:

"pouchdb": "^6.3.4",
"pouchdb-react-native": "^6.3.4",

Replication is as shown below:

const localDB = new PouchDB('employee');
const remoteDB = new PouchDB('http://username:password@localhost:5984/employee');

localDB.replicate.from(
  remoteDB,
  (err, response) => {
    if (err) {
      return console.log(err);
    }
  },
);

I get following error:

{"code":"ETIMEDOUT","status":0,"result":{"ok":false,"start_time":"...","docs_read":0,"docs_written":0,"doc_write_failures":0,"errors":[],"status":"aborting","end_time":"...","last_seq":0}}

Almost all the times this works fine when I run the app in debug mode. Tried ajax timeout as shown here PouchDB ETIMEDOUT error . This didn't work. Is there something that I'm supposed to look in my code? Please help.

Answer 1

Had the same issue, the following fixed it for me:

1. Use your PC ip address instead of localhost
2. Configure your firewall to allow connections on port 5984 OR just disable it (Not recommended)