This library allows you to connect to a Couchbase cluster from node.js

To install this module, we'll assume you are using NPM. However it is not as simple as a regular JavaScript module, as it depends on the C-library for Couchbase clients, libcouchbase. Libcouchbase also powers other dynamic language clients, such as Ruby and PHP, so if you've worked with those clients you should feel right at home.

First step is to install libcouchbase (the 2.0 version). On a Mac with homebrew this should be as easy as running:

brew install https://github.com/couchbase/homebrew/raw/preview/Library/Formula/libcouchbase.rb

Once you have libcouchbase installed, you can proceed to install the couchbase module by running:

npm install couchbase

Do note that this module requires the very latest version of libcouchbase, so if you see errors like error: ‘struct lcb_io_opt_st’ has no member named ‘v’, you may have to install libcouchbase from source until we cut another release.

For API illustration, the best bet at the current time is a small example http hit counter. There is also the test suite which shows more details.

get:       cb.get(testkey, function (err, doc, meta) {})
set:       cb.set(testkey, "bar", function (err, meta) {})
replace:   cb.replace(testkey, "bar", function(err, meta) {})
delete:    cb.delete(testkey, function (err, meta) {})
multiget:  cb.get(['key1', 'key2', '...'], function(err, doc, meta) {})

See CONTRIBUTING.md

You would need to have libcouchbase installed before you can build the node extension. If you have installed libcouchbase in a location that isn't part of the default search path for your compiler, linker and runtime linker, you have to set the appropriate flags. ex:

EXTRA_CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/local/lib"