I've been able to sync data from my cloudant instance to my nodejs based pouchdb, however I need to setup a secondary search index and therefore I created a view on the couchdb instance however I am unable to see it in my synced pouchdb instance.

I see it in cloudant, in all documents, however after syncing and calling alldocs on pouchdb, it's not there. Also, i'm using the pouchdb-find plugin and I can't reference the secondary index search fields. Of course from pouchdb if if set the secondary index, it works fine.

Am I missing something? Does sync not replicate design docs in PouchDB? If not, what's the best way to create a persistent secondary index?

Any good docs for this? (Nolan....?) Speaking of docs, or support, is there an IRC room or some other live support for couchdb from the user community?

Thanks for your attention,
Paul