Store and load CouchDB views to / from your file system for easier setup of new databases.

$ couchviews dump http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/database ./database/ 

When it comes to unit testing your CouchDB application, you often need to setup a clean database for each test case. The only thing you need to do after setup is importing all views – use couchviews to do this.

$ npm install -g couchviews 

Use dump to store your views into a directory and push to load them into your database again.

$ couchviews dump <couchdb> <dir> $ couchviews push <couchdb> <dir> 

Example:

$ couchviews dump http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/database ./database/ $ couchviews push http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/database ./database/ 

You can also use couchviews as a module in your own node projects.

var couchviews = require('couchviews'); var url = 'http://localhost:5984/db', path = 'db'; couchviews.dump(url, path, function (err, designDocs) { console.log('done, dumped: ', designDocs); }); couchviews.push(url, path, function (err, designDocs) { console.log('done, pushed: ', designDocs); }); 

Feel free to experiment and improve this code. There are some unit tests written with mocha and should. Just type npm test to run them. You'll need a local CouchDB instance to run tests.