10 things I learned from reading (and writing) the PouchDB source

To set the stage: I first joined the project around December of last year, at which point PouchDB was already fairly mature. (The first commit from Mikeal Rodgers is already 4 years old!) My own background was mostly in Android development, but I had some knowledge of Web SQL thanks to a PhoneGap app I had worked on. The main goals I had with PouchDB were to increase its performance and browser compatibility. And having dealt with that ugly F-word that haunts the Android ecosystem ("fragmentation"), I figured compatibility in the web dev world couldn't be much worse. Could it?