April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 50m
English
Let’s start by getting the husk of this project off the ground. Our business team wants to support content creators by slicing and dicing video viewing metrics in all sorts of ways—some which they haven’t even identified yet. The first metric they care about is a global count of video views.
Since we don’t actually have any video content yet, we can just simulate video views with a button click. We’re going to build enough server to serve a page like the screenshot. There’s a button to click to simulate having viewed a video. To get this working we need:

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