Setting up the application

Let us begin by building a folder that will hold the files for this application. This application will need an HTML file that will hold the Carousel; it will need a few libraries such as jQuery and jQuery Cycle. We will have to import these libraries; we also need a JSON file that holds the data for this exercise. To download the jQuery file, please visit http://www.jquery.com. As we have already observed, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library available to developers. There is a growing community of developers who make jQuery more and more popular by the day. We will be using the jQuery Cycle library to power our Carousel application. The jQuery Cycle is one the most popular and lightweight cycle libraries with numerous features; it can be downloaded from http://malsup.github.io/jquery.cycle.all.js.

These files have to be in a folder inside your document root; in this project we will be working with a live Apache Server, and we will be ingesting the JSON...