All Offline-First Blog Posts

What is CouchDB? #3: Community & Ecosystem posted Wednesday, September 10, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team CouchDBOffline-FirstDistsysReplication

Since its first release the CouchDB ecosystem has become quite substantial — think adding everything from hammocks to a chaise. It’s not a marketing-driven technology, so if you needed more evidence of how widely CouchDB is used, you’re about to find a wealth of repos that have received contributions in the last weeks and months. Given CouchDB’s focus on long-term reliability, you’ll also find some older packages still humming along.

What is CouchDB? #2: Guiding Principles & Use Cases posted Wednesday, September 3, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team CouchDBOffline-FirstDistsysReplication

Welcome back! In part one of this series we covered CouchDB’s headline features to understand what makes this database unique. By the end of this second part, you should have a better idea of when and why to use CouchDB. We’ll look at some of the scenarios in which you’ll want to consider it, and look at real world examples.

What is CouchDB? #1: Introduction posted Wednesday, August 27, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team CouchDBOffline-FirstDistsysReplication

One honest answer to this question is easy: CouchDB is an Apache-backed, open source, schema-free database. Helpful? It acknowledges an open secret I’ll blurt out: answering this question is notoriously difficult, because you need to make some assumptions about who you’re answering it for.

Local-First Conf Recap posted Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team NewsOffline-FirstEventsTutorial

The Neighbourhoodie team attended the 2025 edition of the local-first conference and community day in Berlin and we are very happy we did.

We met a ton of nice people, got inspired by new ideas and learned a lot about the local-first community. Alex ran a well-reviewed PouchDB Workshop at the community event & Jan gave a well-received talk at the conference.

We’re Going to Local-First Conf — Let’s Connect posted Wednesday, May 7, 2025 by CouchDB Team CouchDBOffline-FirstAnnouncementNews

Want to see PouchDB and CouchDB do Local-First? The second edition of the Local-First Conference is taking place in Berlin from May 26-28th and kicks off with a Community Day.

Find out what the CouchDB and PouchDB communities will be up to, how you can find us and what goodies await.

Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 posted Wednesday, March 26, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team TipCouchDBSyncOffline-First

A few weeks ago, we gave you tooling to quickly and easily host your own CouchDB: CouchDB Minihosting! This week, we’re providing a demo application you can deploy on that installation, so you can try that part out with zero hassle. On top of that, consider this an up-to-date, best practises demo app for Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB. We’re using Svelte 5 with Vite as build tooling and Pico.css for styles.