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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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...