PouchDB and Sync Gateway

[Paul Capestany]

I just recently started playing around with PouchDB and was wondering if anyone else on this list has tried using sync_gateway to replicate against it?

For me, it was pretty painless to get the following syncing setup working (with the PouchDB todo demo web app):

PouchDB ⇆ CouchDB ⇆ Sync Gateway ⇆ Couchbase Server

However, what I thought I'd be able to do was directly sync PouchDB without needing a CouchDB intermediary, like so:

PouchDB ⇆ Sync Gateway ⇆ Couchbase Server

Alas, that approach didn't work for me — when I tried to replicate directly against sync_gateway, all it logged was a HTTP: OPTIONS /todos/ request when the web app first loaded. My wild guess would be that it may be related to the CORS setup required to get things working with a CouchDB instance, but I have no idea. Would be great to hear from anyone else who's experimenting with PouchDB + Sync Gateway!

[J. Chris Anderson]

I've used them before like this, but in a PhoneGap context where I could turn of the origin security stuff. Maybe we need to close this ticket for your use case? https://github.com/couchbaselabs/sync_gateway/issues/115 please add a comment if this sounds right

 

[Paul Capestany]

Ha, somehow I never saw that ticket... but yup, it looks like the same issue. Added my comment to it — thanks!

[Giovanni Degiorgi]

Hi there,

I'm also trying to make PouchDB sync against a sync_gateway server in front of a couchbase server, unfortunately isn't working too.

Is there any update to that problem?

Cheers
Gio