Get couchdb-nano working in Vue.js

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Seeing a lot of weirdness trying to get latest couchdb-nano working.

e.g.:

error Cannot invoke an expression whose type lacks a call signature. Type '{ default: (config: string | Configuration) => ServerScope; }' has no compatible call signatures.

(worked around by using non-typescript syntax)

request.js?9ba5:391 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: self._qs.unescape is not a function

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Just living with the JS style import for couchdb-nano for now.

Working now, the unescape issue relates to https://username:password@localhost format of URL's , so using alternative basic auth mechanism

Unescape error is basically this: request/request#1619

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I filed a PR to request to fix it. For now, we just won't use this, since the auth() mechanism (cookie-based) is broken.

I've moved over to the simpler node-couchdb, which will work for now. We might consider extending it and contributing to the project (e.g. cookie based auth support.)