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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Layouts


So far we've created two specific views for our website, one for the home page and one for the details of an image. However, there's no consistent UI wrapping both of these pages together. We have no consistent navigation or logo. There's no common footer with standard copyright or additional information.

Usually, with any website that you create, you're going to want to have some form of a standard layout or master template that every page will use. This layout typically includes the website logo and title, main navigation, sidebar (if any), and the footer. It would be bad practice to include the HTML code for the layout in every single page on our website because if we wanted to make even the smallest change to the main layout, we would have to edit every single page as a result. Fortunately, Handlebars helps lessen the work of utilizing a layout file.

Let's create a layout file for our app by creating a new file named main.handlebars within the views/layouts folder and inserting...

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