What is the proper way to query the couchdb's _users database from node?

Question

I am using the cradle package on node to query couchdb. My node instance has admin privileges.

I am looking for the proper way to query the _users table from node.

right now, I am doing something like this:

  var db = conn.database('_users');
  db.exists(function (err, exists) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('error', err);
    } else if (exists) {
       db.get('org.couchdb.user:some_user', function (err, doc) {
          console.log(doc);
      });
    } else {
      console.log('database does not exists.');
    }
  });

Is there a cleaner way to doing this? any auth libraries similar to pouchdb-authentication?

THIS IS WHAT I DID At the time, I wasn't aware that I could just as easily use pouchdb on node. I will be using it plus pouchdb-authentication to simplify requests to to _users.

Answer 1

You can actually use PouchDB on top of the _users database:

var db = new PouchDB('http://localhost:5984/_users');
db.allDocs({include_docs: true}).then(/* ... */) // <-- fetches all users

_users is just a database. :)