Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS - Second Edition

Rendering the views

Let's take a minute to do a quick recap and see what we've done up to this point. So far, we have:

• Created index.handlebars and image.handlebars—the views for the two main pages of the application
• Created layouts/main.handelbars—the main layout file for every page in the application
• Created partials/comments.handlebars, popular.handlebars, and stats.handlebars
• Created a global timeago Handlebars helper

So far, so good; however, none of these views actually do anything, receive any viewModels, or even appear when you run the application! Let's make a few quick minor modifications to our controllers to get our views to render properly.

Open /controllers/home.js so that you can edit the home controller module. Update the contents of ...