nucifera

Lotus Notes as it should have been!

Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, Egyptian bean or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is often colloquially called a water lily.

nucifer (feminine nucifera, neuter nuciferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) bearing, producing or containing nuts.

A re-imagining of Lotus Notes using now-available technologies:

• HTML for rendering
• Markdown/EJS for templating
• PouchDB/CouchDB for eventual-consistency document database management and replication

Nu-Designed

Nucifera is designed to be a useful (and to work without errors) front-end to any Couch database, but its power comes from simple design documents that live in the database. There is a minimum set of these for a database to be called nu-designed:

• { _id: "docs", template: "builtin:view" } - the main view of documents (excludes design documents)
• { _id: "main", template: "builtin:template" } - the main document template (for viewing and editing documents)
• { _id: "info", template: "builtin:info" } - database-level settings, including lists of view and templates

Conventions

• Any document with a template property which begins builtin: is a design document.
• Any document without a template property or with an unrecognized one (no valid doc with that id) will be shown and edited with builtin:main.
• Any URL representing a view whose view document cannot be found in the database or which is invalid will cause a redirect to the 'docs' (i.e. default) view. If 'docs' is missing or invalid, builtin:docs will be used.

Remote Hosts

IBM Cloudant: https://9c229f2c-7db1-4aba-9c2d-45ecffb0082a-bluemix.cloudant.com/dashboard.html#/_all_dbs

TODO

• Move the message history to the console
• Migrate from parcel to fuse-box
• Fix the images
• Create a yarn task to create and populate an example database