pouchdb issues

[lgarron]

pouchdb is great, but seems to have some maintenance issues. I'm using this issue to keep track of them.

• Warning: db.type() is deprecated and will be removed pouchdb/pouchdb#6449 (5 years old!)
  • Probably due to PouchDb : _remote property is not properly initialized when creating multiple databases pouchdb/pouchdb#7675 (marked as stale and wontfixed)
• PouchDB relying on vulnerable version of node-fetch pouchdb/pouchdb#8440 (supposedly fixed but pending a release)
• Module build for browser breaks when built with vite pouchdb/pouchdb#8266 , which is indicative of two issues:
  • A dependency tries to import "events" as if running in node: import EE from 'events' in browser is not possible pouchdb/pouchdb#8186
    • Workaround: Install "events" from npm, which can transparently be used to polyfill node's behaviour without any other changes.
  • Some dependency depends on window.global being set. 🙄
    • Workaround: Set a js banner of globalThis.global = globalThis and hope this doesn't break clients of timer-db.