Dealing with single items

Our updated ItemsController class has everything we need to build our Welcome View: as soon as we learn how to call it from our client code, we'll be able to fetch the required data to populate all the item lists we expect to have within our GUI.

However, we don't have anything yet to handle any kind of user interaction. When our users click an item, they will surely expect to read something more about it; ideally, they will want to see something similar to a detail page.

To put it in other words: since our Welcome View features a list of clickable items, sooner or later we'll have to give our users the chance to select one of them, ideally with a left mouse click and display the selected item's details: something like ...

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