> I run into trouble with sharing across users on a team and individual user sharing. In that case, I see most solutions use express as middleware for the couch

> I run into trouble with sharing across users on a team and individual user sharing. In that case, I see most solutions use express as middleware for the couchdb connection. A shared databases where everyone can read but only some can write is very much possible with design docs. And when being flexible with assigning/revoking roles + creating/replicating data, a lot can be modelled without a proxy. But yeah, at some point it's probably easier to use a proxy than to do weird stuff with databases and roles.