Class 7: Final Projects + Templating

The Plan

Final Projects: Work Time and Discuss

For the first half of class, I’ll walk around and check in on projects and general questions. You can work on your project or the extra practice exercises.

Lecture: Templating

• Data
  • Types of databases
  • JSON
• What are frameworks?
• What is templating? Why is it awesome?
• Separating content, logic, and data
• MVC (no need to memorize what this means too much)
  • Read more here
• Templating concepts
  • Includes and partials
  • Extends
• Templating languages, look at examples
  • Ruby on Rails (Erubis) <h1><%= person.name %></h1>
  • Twig, Django, Handlebars.js <h1></h1>

• Data for that in JSON would look like:

  { “person”: { “name”: “Lara”, “location”: “NYC” } }

Together: Handlebars templating

Create a new workspace in Cloud9 and clone the project with this link: https://github.com/laras126/handlebars-starter. You can use this for your final project. Recommended, not required if you’d rather use plain HTML.

• What’s happening on the server (PHP includes) vs. client (JS)

Work time: Create templates for final project

With or without templating kit.