CouchApp.org: Documentation for Evently

Evently is a jQuery plugin designed to take the repetition out of writing event-based applications. This page collects documentation and tutorials for using Evently, both inside and outside of CouchApps.

The Evently script is shipped as part of the CouchApp vendor code, along with some example Evently widgets. Development on the project is conducted in the Evently repository on Github

Documentation

• Get started with a basic Evently primer.
• More depth in the Interactive Evently Docs.
• Evently Guided Hackalong Screencast
• Interactive Docs for Evently, jquery.couch.app.js, and Pathbinder
• Question And Answer - ask your questions here and someone who understands the topic will try to answer for you.

The 'Do It Yourself' tutorial

This tutorial writes a toy app step by step. You should just have read What the HTTP is Couchapp? and installed couchapp.

1. Basic architecture: filesystem mapping and events
2. State: remembering values and interacting with the database

Examples in the wild

Here are a few open-source CouchApps using Evently.

• Pages
• Focus
• TweetEater

Feel free to edit this section of the wiki to link to your apps.

The future of Evently

I would like to make the CouchDB specific parts of Evently pluggable, so that people can create adapters for other server-side Ajax APIs, like WebSockets, Redis, the Twitter API or fun stuff using Node.js based servers. I think the good parts of Evently are useful enough that they can be fun for people working in all kinds of environments (although for the life of me I can't figure out why someone would use a webserver that isn't CouchDB.)