CouchDB comes with a built-in web-based administration console called Futon. Futon allows you to manage databases, users, and documents in a simple interface. The best part of Futon is that it's already installed and ready to go, since it comes packed with CouchDB.
Let's check it out:
2. Go to
http://localhost:5984/_utils/
.This is Futon's Overview page. On this page, you can see all of the databases in the CouchDB installation and the ability to create new ones. You should see the database
test-db
that we created in the previous steps, and you can also see the_users
database that is in the CouchDB installation by default.If you look to the right-side of the window, you'll see Tools. We will use this when we cover Replicator later in the book.
3. Let's dig further into our database
test-db
by clicking on the link fortest-db
in the database list on the Overview page.The page you see is the database detail. In this page, you can see a list of all of the documents...