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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788395083
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Introducing Express 5. Templating 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. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks 12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Views


A view is what we refer to an HTML page as. They are called views because of the MVC design pattern. As we already discussed, a model is a data that will be displayed on a page, the view is the page itself, and the controller is the brain that communicates between the model and the view.

Our particular application is going to need two views. The first view is the home page and the second view is the image page.

Note

The HTML in the following section relies heavily on Bootstrap, a popular HTML framework created by Twitter, which provides a standard set of user interface elements. These include buttons, fonts, layout grids, color schemes, and a whole lot more. Using Bootstrap allows us to not only present our application with a nice clean UI but also build it so that it is responsive and will look correct on any device that is viewing it. You can learn more about Bootstrap by visitinghttp://getbootstrap.com.

Let's start by creating the home page view. Create a new file within the views folder...

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