How to resolve conflicts with continuous replication

Question

I\'m new to both CouchDB and PouchDB and am using it to create a contact management system that syncs across mobile and desktop devices, and can be used offline. I am seeing

Answer 1

Writing an article with examples of exactly how to manage conflict resolution is a really good idea, it can be confusing, but with the lack of one

The idea is the exact same as CouchDB, to resolve conflicts you delete the revisions that didnt win (and write a new winner if needed)

#1 is how CouchDB conflict resolution works anyway, so you dont need to worry about that, deleted leafs dont conflict

function onChange(doc) { 
  if (!doc._conflicts) return;
    collectConflicts(doc._conflicts, function(docs) {
      var master = docs.sort(byTime).unshift();
      for (var doc in docs) {
        for (var prop in doc) {
          if (!(prop in master)) { 
            master[prop] = doc[prop];
          } 
        }
      }
      db.put(master, function(err) {
        if (!err) { 
          for (var doc in docs) {
            db.remove(doc);
          }
        }
      });     
    });
  }
}

db.changes({conflicts: true, onChange: onChange});

This will need error handling etc and could be written much nicer, was just a quick napkin drawing of what the code could look like