Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, the Handlebars template-rendering engine was introduced, following which we reviewed the syntax used when creating dynamic HTML pages. We created a main layout for our app as well as the home page and image page views. We included partial views for the sidebar in the layout and created a global Handlebars helper to display custom formatted dates.

Even though none of the views are currently displaying any data (because we aren't passing models to the views yet), you can see that things are starting to come along nicely! In the next chapter, we will wire up the actual logic in the controllers for each page and build up the Model objects so that we start seeing some actual content on our screens.