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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287527
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd 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. Single-Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Views


A view is what we refer to as a HTML page. They are called views because of the MVC design pattern. As we already discussed, a model is the data that is going to 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 visiting http://getbootstrap.com.

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

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