Application design
What features do we expect from an e-mail client? At a minimum:
- Login: This helps to gain access to your own account
- Inbox: This is a list of our e-mails
- Sent: This is a list of e-mails we've sent in the past
- Archive: This is a list of e-mails we've disposed of
- Composer: This helps to write e-mails
- Search: This helps to find archived e-mails
The final version of the app looks something like this:
The thread view on the left and messages from the selected thread on the right
What do we need to do to get to this point? Let's sketch out a design:
The login page is pretty standard. We'll want to validate user input, check the e-mail address, ...
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