Fauxton is the new Web UI for CouchDB. To get it running in development on your machine. Follow the steps below.
You can use the latest release of Fauxton via npm:
npm install -g fauxton fauxton
See fauxton --help
for extra options.
Please note that a recent installation of node.js and npm is required.
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton.git
and make sure you have a cloned local copygit remote add git-repo https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton.git
git remote add upstream http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-fauxton.git
couchdb-fauxton
) and type npm install
to download all dependenciesgrunt-cli
(grunt command line interface)In case you don't have the Grunt command line interface installed, run the following command:
npm install -g grunt-cli
If you run into a permissions problem, run that last command as an administrator:
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
NOTE: Before you run Fauxton, don't forget to start CouchDB!
Using the dev server is the easiest way to use Fauxton, especially when developing for it. In the cloned repo folder, type:
grunt dev
Wait until you see the “Fauxton” ascii art on your command line, then you should be able to access Fauxton at http://localhost:8000
Follow the “Setting up Fauxton” section above, then edit the settings.json
variable root where the document will live, e.g. /_utils/
. Then type:
grunt couchdb
This will install the latest version of Fauxton into /share/www/
To deploy to your local CouchDB instance:
grunt couchapp_deploy
# Development mode, non minified files npm run couchdebug # Or fully compiled install npm run couchdb
Check out the following pages for a lot more information about Fauxton:
-- The Fauxton Team