PouchDB 5.3.0: SQLite support in Node

PouchDB 5.3.0 is released today, with a new feature: SQLite support in Node, using node-websql. This means that, in addition to the LevelDB-based LevelDOWN (or any other *DOWN adapter), you can now also use sqlite3, via PouchDB's WebSQL adapter.

To get started, just do:

require('pouchdb/extras/websql');
var db = new PouchDB('database.db', {adapter: 'websql'})

This feature will also be available in PouchDB Server, as pouchdb-server --sqlite.

Note that this doesn't change the behavior of the WebSQL adapter in the browser. That adapter is still bundled by default in PouchDB's browser version. For more details, see the ["extras" API documentation]({{ site.baseurl }}/api.html#extras).

Changelog

Features

• Support WebSQL in Node via node-websql (#4915)

Bugfixes

• Escape unicode in auth header (#4903)
• Fix cache-busting in Edge (#4827)
• Better error when trying to re-use a destroyed database (#4339)
• Cache ddoc views and filters (#4867)
• Allow creating databases with reserved words (#4898)
• Fix missing key in ungrouped (custom) reduce functions (#4878)
• Fix leaking of stemmed revisions (#4372)

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