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What is a reasonable comparison between PouchDB/CouchDB's sync-based, offline-first design philosophy and a more traditional approach of manually writing custom offline-caching logic on top of a standard REST API client-server architecture?
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What is a reasonable comparison between PouchDB/CouchDB's sync-based, offline-first design philosophy and a more traditional approach of manually writing custom offline-caching logic on top of a standard REST API client-server architecture?
What is the purpose of `db.remove(doc)` in PouchDB, and how does document deletion actually work under the hood given PouchDB's revision-tracking system?
What is a reasonable justification for PouchDB storing data in the browser using underlying storage mechanisms like IndexedDB, rather than requiring a completely custom, from-scratch browser storage implementation?
What is the basic API pattern for creating/saving a new document in PouchDB?
What is the typical strategy an application needs to implement for handling a detected PouchDB/CouchDB conflict, given that PouchDB itself doesn't automatically decide which conflicting version "wins"?
What is the basic API pattern for starting a bidirectional sync between a local PouchDB database and a remote CouchDB server?
What is the purpose of "attachments" in PouchDB, as a feature for storing binary data alongside a document?
What is a PouchDB/CouchDB "view" (created via a map/reduce function), and what problem does it solve for querying data beyond simple lookup-by-ID?
What is a reasonable use case for running PouchDB in a Node.js server-side context, given that it's often primarily associated with browser-based, client-side offline storage?
What is the purpose of PouchDB's sync capability with CouchDB, and what problem does it solve for building "offline-first" applications?
What is the significance of PouchDB documents being "schema-less" by default, and what tradeoff does this flexibility involve compared to a strictly-schema-enforced relational database table?
What is a PouchDB/CouchDB "conflict," and how does it typically arise in an offline-first, syncing application?