Towards a web application: HTML templates

In the previous chapter, we briefly saw how to construct HTML templates by interleaving Scala snippets in an HTML file. We saw that templates are compiled to Scala functions, and we learned how to call these functions from the controllers.

In single-page applications, the majority of the logic governing what is actually displayed in the browser resides in the client-side JavaScript, not in the server. The pages served by the server contain the bare-bones HTML framework.

Let's create the HTML layout for our application. We will save this in views/index.scala.html. The template will just contain the layout for the application, but will not contain any information about any user's repositories. To fetch that information, the application will have to query the API developed in the previous chapter. The template does not take any parameters, since all the dynamic HTML generation will happen client-side.

We use the Bootstrap grid layout to control...