couchdb client

why?

There are a few other libraries, but nothing I liked. This is what I've done differently:

Everything is handled through streams and promises.
Authentication and retries are handled transparently by the client.
Property naming matches JavaScript's style and is consistent. _id is the document id everywhere (including status messages) and snake_case names are corrected to camelCase.
Optimize to make the fewest requests possible... tracking cookie timeouts to avoid retries, allowing you to specify if a conflict is likely to happen, and get the doc to apply your changes before attempting an update, using the _bulk_docs endpoint for post streams, and combining duplicate requests in get/head streams.

CouchDB Client is an npm package, so it can be installed into your project like this:

npm install slang-couchdb --save

If you want pretty printing, pipe the output into jq.