Browser support

[ybian]

Hi,

It says in README that:

... Right now it is built for Node.js, but browser support is coming soon.

How soon do we expect to have that? ;-)

[colinskow]

It needs to be integrated with Browserify, but I am not very familiar with how that works yet. If you want to take that challenge on, you are very welcome to create a pull request!

[ybian]

@colinskow I'm still investigating whether sofa-model is a good fit for my current project. If we finally decide to use it I will probably help on this. I'm uncertain whether we should put the validation logic separately like in sofa-model or make it into couchdb validate_doc_update function in design doc.

[colinskow]

@ybian Since a browser client cannot be trusted, it is important to validate your data on the sever. SofaModel is designed for a NodeJS backend. If you want your client to post updates directly to CouchDB, then validate_doc_update is the best strategy.

On the front-end I mostly use AngularJS which has very good built-in validation, so I haven't found a personal need for SofaModel in the browser.

[ybian]

@colinskow Thanks a lot for your comments. Yes, my case will probably don't need SofaModel in the browser either. You can close this issue or leave it open for someone who has a use case to pick it up.