Hello Electron with Pouchdb

This is a demo app that integrates PouchDB with Electron.

It shows how to use any of the following PouchDB adapters:

• IndexedDB (browser-style)
• WebSQL (browser-style)
• LevelDB (Node-style)
• SQLite (Node-style)

The app looks like this:

Install and run

Check out the code:

git clone https://github.com/nolanlawson/hello-electron-with-pouchdb
cd hello-electron-with-pouchdb

Then npm install:

npm install

And run:

npm start

If it doesn't work, you might not have the latest version of Node/npm. Try installing the latest using nvm.

Browser vs Node

In order to get LevelDB to work propertly, we use electron-rebuild to rebuild LevelDB for Electron.

If this step doesn't work for you (e.g. because you are using an older version of Node, you're using Windows, etc.), you can remove the postinstall script from package.json, replace the pouchdb dependency with pouchdb-browser, and just use the browser adapters (IndexedDB/WebSQL) rather than the Node.js adapter (LevelDB).

See pouchdb-electron for more installation instructions.

node-websql (sqlite3) adpater

If you want to run PouchDB in "Node.js style" but using SQLite, then you should use pouchdb-adapter-node-websql, as demonstrated in this project.

Like LevelDB, this requires reinstalling a native module (in this case, SQLite3). If this fails, you can just remove the pouchdb-adapter-node-websql dependency from package.json and also the postinstall script.