Building a complete web application
Beginning with this chapter, we are going to build a complete web application. The web application that we build will be a clone of a popular social image-sharing site, imgur.com. We'll call our site imgPloadr.io.
Designing the web application
The requirements of the site are as follows:
- The home page will allow visitors to upload an image as well as browse the existing uploads, which will be ordered based on newest to oldest.
- Each uploaded image will be presented via its own page that shows its title, description, and a large image display. Visitors will be able to like the image and post comments.
- A consistent shared sidebar will be visible on both pages and will showcase some general statistics about the site, ...
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