List All Docs with @ibm-cloud/cloudant

So recently IBM deprecated @cloudant/cloudant and have moved on to @ibm-cloud/cloudant. I was in the process of doing a todo app to learn Cloudant along with some other things and so had to migrate to the new package.

As you can see from my Cloudant dashboard, I have a database with name "todo-vue-hapi" and there are 3 docs in the db. According to the migration docs to list all the documents before you would use db.list now you should use service.postDesignDocs so I connected everything and used the following code:

const response = await db.postDesignDocs({
  db: 'todo-vue-hapi',
})

This gives back a response object with the following result property:

{result: { total_rows: 0, offset: 0, rows: []}

The 3 docs are not there! I'm wondering how I can query everything in the database "todo-vue-hapi". Help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

The postDesignDocs function only returns design documents, which are special Cloudant documents containing index definitions.

To return all documents in a database you need to use the _all_docs API endpoint which is implemented as the postAllDocs function:

const response = await db.postAllDocs({
  db: 'todo-vue-hapi',
  includeDocs: true,
  limit: 10
})

This should return you all documents in the database, including regular and design documents.