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JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie, Ray Rischpater
Book Image

JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie, Ray Rischpater

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript JSON Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing and setting up CouchDB and Cradle


CouchDB comes as a click-and-run installer for major platforms.

How to do it…

To begin, you first need to install the server. To do this, go to http://couchdb.apache.org/ and download the installer appropriate for your platform. Before installing Cradle, be sure to run the installer.

Next, on a command line, run the following command to install Cradle:

npm install cradle

Finally, you need to enable cross-resource requests on the CouchDB server, to permit those requests on the Web. To do this, edit the /etc/couchdb/default.ini file, and change the following line:

enable_cors = false

With the following line:

enable_cors = true

You also need to indicate which origin servers you'll accept CORS requests from; to enable cross-resource requests for all domains, add the following line to /etc/couchdb/default.ini in the section labeled [cors]:

origins = *

If you want to be more specific, you can provide a comma-separated list of origin domains from which your HTML...