Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

[Richard Gaskin]

Alain Farmer wrote:

 > I am also interested in JSON, because this is the native format
 > of JavaScript, Couch, and MANY other tools. It is essential for
 > inter-operability. Btw, Couch is a relatively-new no-SQL database,
 > much faster than any SQL, designed for massive distributed systems,
 > specialized in replication & synchronization. Couch's API is native
 > HTTP : HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Meanwhile, back at the LiveCode
 > ranch, it would indeed be nice to be able to handle JSON, load it as
 > an array and/or a graph. Is it the case already ?

With CouchDB's main API being HTTP-based, do you know if there's a 
library for LC to make working with it even more convenient?

As for JSON, there are several libraries that convert LC arrays to JSON 
and back again:

<http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/82/LibJson-1-0b>
<https://github.com/luxlogica/easyjson>
<https://github.com/montegoulding/mergJSON>
<http://www.rozek.mobi/LiveCode/JSONlib/index_scr_en.html>

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