Advanced Tutorial

In this tutorial we'll bring together some of the more advanced features of Couch like 'relations', 'data-bound forms', 'extended users' and 'custom routes' to create a, not-so-simple, 'application' (as opposed to a regular site that Couch is usually used for).

So what shall we be building?
Please take a look at https://github.com/komarserjio/notejam for that.

Notejam is a unified sample web application implemented using different server-side frameworks (like Laravel, Yii etc.).
In this tutorial, we'll attempt to implement it using Couch.

Broadly speaking, following is what this sample application does (details can be found at https://github.com/komarserjio/notejam/ ... quirements)-

1. Visitors can sign up/in/out.
2. Logged-in users can create/view/edit/delete their own 'notes'.
3. The notes can be grouped in 'pads' (functionally equivalent to our 'folders' but user specific). Logged-in users can create/view/edit/delete their own 'pads'.











For this tutorial, instead of starting off with a blank slate and developing the features step-by-step (as done in our first tutorial at http://www.couchcms.com/docs/tutorials/portfolio-site/), we'll take a different approach - we'll start with a fully developed and functional application and then analyze it by going through all its code line-by-line.

Here is the static HTML design of Notejam application
HTML version

And here is its completely Couchified version -
Couchified version

Before we begin our tour through this application's codebase to see how it was implemented using Couch, I think you'd find it helpful to have it up and running on your local system. This way you can explore its functionality first-hand as we discuss the code behind it.

So please bear through this, unavoidably bland, preparatory step of installing a working copy of Notejam on your system before we dive into its code which is where all the excitement lies

Next: Installing the application