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Posted by Isaiah Curry
Isaiah Curry
3,950 Points

How Youtube or Pinterest works

What method or process do these sites use to display the content once you've clicked on a video or tile. Is there a script that loads the data from the selection into a HTML template page or does each item already have a page created and is just called once you select it?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

For sure they are using templates. Youtube uses Python as it's back end language, and according the BuiltWith Pinterest uses PHP.

All of the data for both of these sites are going to be stored in massive databases with I'm sure a lot of relational tables. When content needs to be generated into HTML to the user, the backend language will have gathered all of the necessary data and assets from the database, and will run it through a view model, or a series of view models that will get the correct HTML for the browser.

I image both sites use some sort of MCV to create the end result.

Isaiah Curry
Isaiah Curry
3,950 Points

Thanks Kevin, this info really helps a lot.