A simple script showing RethinkDB's JavaScript API

tableCreate.js

var r = require('rethinkdb');
var assert = require('assert');

// Sample table names
var sampleTableName1 = 'sample_table_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);
var sampleTableName2 = 'sample_table_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);

// Create a table using callbacks
r.connect(function (err, conn) {
  r.db('test').tableCreate(sampleTableName1)
    .run(conn, function (err, result) {
      // There should be no error and result should be an object
      assert.equal(err, undefined);
      assert.equal(typeof result, "object");
      // Make it throw an error by creating a table with the same name
      r.db('test').tableCreate(sampleTableName1)
        .run(conn, function (err, result) {
          // Should pass an error to the callback and not throw an error
          // There should be no `result`
          assert.ok(err instanceof Error);
          assert.equal(result, undefined);
          r.db('test').tableDrop(sampleTableName1).run(conn, function (err, result) {
            // Make sure we didn't get an error
            assert.equal(err, undefined);
            assert.equal(result.tables_dropped, 1);
            console.log('All Callback tests O.K.');
          });
        });
   });
});

r.connect()
  .then(function (conn) {
   return Promise.resolve()
     .then(function () {
       return r.db('test').tableCreate(sampleTableName2).run(conn);
     })
     .then(function (result) {
       assert.equal(typeof result, "object");
       return r.db('test').tableCreate(sampleTableName2).run(conn);
     })
     .catch(function (err) {
       assert.ok(err instanceof Error);
     })
     .then(function () {
       return r.db('test').tableDrop(sampleTableName2).run(conn);
     })
     .then(function (result) {
       assert.equal(result.tables_dropped, 1);
       console.log('All Promise tests O.K.');
     });
  });