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Connecting to a CouchDB database using Node.js and Cradle

Although CouchDB provides a RESTful interface, you don't strictly need to make a database connection before using CouchDB; the Cradle module uses the notion of a connection to manage its internal state and there's still a connection object you need to create.

How to do it...

Here's how to include the Cradle module in your Node.js application and initialize it, getting a handle to a particular database:

var cradle = require('cradle');
var db = new(cradle.Connection)().database('documents');

How it works…

This code first includes the Cradle module, and then creates a new Cradle Connection object, setting its database to the database documents. This initializes Cradle with the default CouchDB host ...