Chapter 5: Designing Your Application
Before you start building your application, you must think about the technical design and do some planning. In the code examples in this book, the process of building a weblog application is a recurring theme. This chapter discusses the design of such an example application. It starts with a brief overview of the functional requirements, then looks at technical choices specific for this example: frameworks and libraries. The last part of the chapter translates the functional requirements to a data model and a URL structure.
Gathering Requirements
This book is not the first tutorial to explain a platform by building a weblog. For example, when the Ruby on Rails platform was first introduced in 2005, the website ...
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