CouchApp is a set of helpers and a jQuery plugin that conspire to get you up and running on CouchDB quickly and correctly.

CouchApp is maintained and designed by CouchDB committers and community-members to bring clarity and order to the freedom of CouchDB’s document-based approach.

CouchApp is by no means the only way to use CouchDB. CouchDB’s technical roots make it well suited for very large installations.

CouchApp concentrates instead on a more personal use case: deploying and developing standalone apps to CouchDB instances around the web.

There are apps you can build with server-side components that you can’t build with just CouchApp. But by the same token, there are apps you can build on CouchApp alone that you can’t build any other way.