Rendering the views

Let's take a minute to do a quick recap and see what we've done up to this point. So far, we have:

• Created index.handlebars and image.handlebars—the views for the two main pages of the application

• Created layouts/main.handelbars—the main layout file for every page in the application

• Created partials/comments.handlebars, popular.handlebars, and stats.handlebars

• Created a global timeago Handlebars helper

So far so good; however, none of these views actually do anything, receive any ViewModels, or even appear when you run the application! Let's make a few quick minor modifications to our controllers to get our views to render properly.

Open /controllers/home.js so that you can edit the home controller module. Update the contents of that file so that it looks identical to the following block of code:

module.exports = {
    index: function(req, res) {
        res.render('index');
    }
};

Instead of performing res.send, which just sends a simple response, we are calling res.render...