Cake.ViewCompiler

Introduction

This simple Cake addin is designed to simplify the build process when using CouchDB views.

Usage

#addin "Cake.ViewCompiler"
Task("Generate-Views")
.Does(() => {
    var samplePaths = GetFiles("./Views/*.js");
    ViewCompiler("events")
        .FromFiles(samplePaths)
        .Create("./design-doc.json");
});

That will create a simple design-doc.json file in your current directory based on any .js files in the Views directory.

View Files

Rather than managing an unwieldy design document with an obtuse structure, just keep a series of .js files, named for their view name, with the function as their content.

That is, for a view named events, just create a file called events.js with the following as the content:

function(doc) {
    if (doc.$doctype !== 'eventSource') return;
    emit(doc.name, doc.events.length);
}

Now, just make sure your Cake script includes that file in the call to ViewCompiler and the view will natively show up in the target design document.

License and Credits

Credit to Icons8 for the icon, to the Cake team for an awesome tool and to the JSON.NET project for the JSON-handling code.