[evan2m]

Exactly. Couchdb is preferable to this for so many reasons. The author is effectively using the Nginx configuration language for server-side scripting. The result ends up looking a lot like a bad PHP crud app. With couchdb, the REST API is already built in.

[ams6110]

Except if you already have a postgres-based system and you want to build a simple REST api around some small piece of it.