Create a View
It would be possible to create an entire application by coding everything inside a Controller and doing all the formatting inside view methods. However, you would soon end up with some pretty ugly web pages. To apply more formatting, you need to create a View that more accurately defines the layout of a web page.
You can think of a View as an HTML page that will be displayed when someone logs onto a specific web address—in which case, the name of the View forms the final part of the address as in the previous examples where the /index and /bye parts of the URL took you to views that displayed data supplied by the index and bye methods in the Controller.
You can create HTML view “templates” that match these web addresses and the corresponding ...
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