If you take a look at our current home controller (controllers/home.js), you can see that the index function barely has any code in it whatsoever:
res.render('index');The first thing we want to do is build a basic view model using sample data so that we can see our view model at work. Replace that single res.render call with the following updated code:
var viewModel = {
images: [
{
uniqueId: 1,
title: 'Sample Image 1',
description: '',
filename: 'sample1.jpg',
views: 0,
likes: 0,
timestamp: Date.now
}, {
uniqueId: 2,
title: 'Sample Image 2',
description: '',
filename: 'sample2.jpg',
views: 0,
likes: 0,
timestamp: Date.now
}, {
uniqueId: 3,
title:...