Filter design documents with PouchDB

Question

I'm using a design document to ensure that only owners can modify docs. How can I prevent couchdb from replicating this design document?

Answer 1

You can use the filter option in changes() and replicate(), e.g.

var opts = {
  live: true,
  filter: function(doc) {
    return doc._id.indexOf('_design') !== 0;
  } 
};
var db = new PouchDB('todos');
db.replicate.to('http://localhost:5984/todos', opts);