At this point, you should have a general sense of what MapReduce is, where it came from, and how it will affect the creation of a Couchbase Server view. So without further ado, let's see how to write our first Couchbase view.

In Chapter 1, Getting Comfortable with Couchbase, we saw that when we install Couchbase Server, we have the option of including a sample bucket. In fact, there were two to choose from. The bucket we'll use is beer-sample. If you didn't install it, don't worry. You can add it by opening the Couchbase Console and navigating to the Settings tab. Here, you'll find the option to install the bucket, as shown next:

In the next sections, we'll return to the console to create our view, examine documents, and query our views. For now, however, we'll simply examine the code. First, you need to understand the document structures with which you're working. The following JSON object is a beer document (abbreviated for brevity):

{
 "name": "Sundog",
 "type": "beer",
...