Accessing CouchDB changes stream with Cradle

One of CouchDB's most noteworthy features is the _changes API. With it we can view all alterations to a database via HTTP.

For instance, to see all changes made to our quotes database we can make a GET request to http://localhost:5984/quotes/_changes. Even better, if we wanted to hook up to a live stream, we would add the query parameter ?feed=continuous.

Cradle provides an attractive interface to the _changes API, which we'll explore in this recipe.

Getting ready

We'll need a functioning CouchDB database and a way to write to it. We can use the quotes.js example used in Storing data to CouchDB with Cradle, so let's copy that into a new directory and then create a file alongside it called quotes_stream.js.

If we followed the Creating an admin user and Locking all modifying operations to an admin user sections of the previous recipe's There's more... section, we will need to modify the second line of quotes.js in order to continue to insert quotes...