{% include anchor.html edit="true" title="View cleanup" hash="view_cleanup" %} 

{% highlight js %}
db.viewCleanup([callback])
{% endhighlight %}

Cleans up any stale map/reduce indexes.

As design docs are deleted or modified, their associated index files (in CouchDB) or companion databases (in local PouchDBs) continue to take up space on disk. `viewCleanup()` removes these unnecessary index files.

See [the CouchDB documentation on view cleanup](http://couchdb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/maintenance/compaction.html#views-cleanup) for details.

#### Example Usage:

{% include code/start.html id="viewcleanup" type="callback" %}
{% highlight js %}
db.viewCleanup(function (err, result) {
  if (err) { return console.log(err); }
  // handle result
});
{% endhighlight %}
{% include code/end.html %}

{% include code/start.html id="viewcleanup" type="async" %}
{% highlight js %}
try {
  var result = await db.viewCleanup();
} catch (err) {
  console.log(err);
}
{% endhighlight %}
{% include code/end.html %}

{% include code/start.html id="viewcleanup" type="promise" %}
{% highlight js %}
db.viewCleanup().then(function (result) {
  // handle result
}).catch(function (err) {
  console.log(err);
});
{% endhighlight %}
{% include code/end.html %}

#### Example Response:
{% highlight js %}
{ "ok" : "true" }
{% endhighlight %}