CouchApp is designed to structure standalone CouchDB application development for maximum application portability.

CouchApp is a set of scripts and a jQuery plugin designed to bring clarity and order to the freedom of CouchDB's document-based approach.

Render HTML documents using JavaScript templates run by CouchDB. You'll get parallelism and cacheability, using only HTML and JS. Building standalone CouchDB applications according to correct principles affords you options not found on other platforms.

CouchDB's replication means that programs running locally, can still be social. Applications control replication data-flows, so publishing messages and subscribing to other people is easy. Your users will see the benefits of the web without the hassle of requiring always-on connectivity.

Couchapp requires Python 2.5x or sup. To install couchapp using easy_install you must make sure you have a recent version of distribute installed:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ easy_install pip

To install or upgrade to the latest released version of couchapp:

$ pip install couchapp

On OSX 10.6/10.7 you may need to set ARCH_FLAGS:

$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" pip install couchapp

To install/upgrade development version:

$ pip install git+http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp.git#egg=Couchapp

Note: some installations need to use sudo command beafore each command line.

Note on debian system don't forget to install python-dev.

To install on windows follow instructions here.

More installion options on the website.

Read the tutorial.

• Couchapp website
• Frequently Asked Questions
• couchapp command line usage
• Extend couchapp command line
• List of CouchApps