[ckan-dev] Fwd: Side project: "Removalist", or Refine-lite, a pure javascript port of the simpler parts of Refine

Wed Jul 6 07:09:09 UTC 2011

FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Max Ogden <maxosmail at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:18 AM
Subject: Side project: "Removalist", or Refine-lite, a pure javascript
port of the simpler parts of Refine
To: google-refine at googlegroups.com

After finding myself sending data back and forth from my database
(CouchDB) to Refine and doing the same operations over and over again
I finally broke down and ported the Refine UI and a couple core
features to a pure javascript application running on CouchDB (aka
CouchApp)
This means there is no Java server dependency... all of the data
transformations run in-browser and then the data gets persisted in
CouchDB. I am planning on adding some data upload functionality and
making it an entirely in-browser app once
https://github.com/mikeal/pouchdb is a bit more developed.
To play with it (dummy data from the City of San Fransico):
http://max.couchone.com/sf_public_schools/_design/removalist/_rewrite

Source code is here https://github.com/maxogden/removalist

p.s. a "removalist" is an old term for someone that you would hire to
move your furniture :)

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