Apache PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that is designed to run well within the browser.

PouchDB was created to help web developers build applications that work as well offline as they do online.

Apache PouchDB is currently undergoing Incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. Read the ASF Disclaimer for incubator projects.

To get started using PouchDB, check out the web site and API documentation.

The PouchDB community is active in #pouchdb on the CouchDB Slack, in the Google Groups mailing list, and on StackOverflow. Or you can mastodon @pouchdb!

If you think you've found a bug in PouchDB, please write a reproducible test case and file a Github issue.

If you like to live on the bleeding edge, you can build PouchDB from source using these steps:

git clone https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb.git
cd pouchdb
npm install

After running these steps, the browser build can be found in packages/node_modules/pouchdb/dist/pouchdb.js.

PouchDB follows semantic versioning. To see a changelog with all PouchDB releases, check out the Github releases page.

For a concise list of breaking changes, there's the wiki list of breaking changes.

Keep in mind that PouchDB is auto-migrating, so a database created in 1.0.0 will still work if you open it in 4.0.0+. Any release containing a migration is clearly marked in the release notes.

We're always looking for new contributors! If you'd like to try your hand at writing code, writing documentation, designing the website, writing a blog post, or answering questions on StackOverflow, then we'd love to have your input.

If you have a pull request that you'd like to submit, please read the contributing guide for info on style, commit message format, and other (slightly!) nitpicky things like that. PouchDB is heavily tested, so you'll also want to check out the testing guide.

The documentation website at pouchdb.com is also part of this repo, in the /docs folder. It has its own /docs/WEBSITE_README.md

Website deployment happens automatically once the changes land in master.