Modeling Demo Users

There are as many choices for a user data model as there are different registration forms on the web; we’ll go with a distinctly minimalist approach. Users of our demo app will have a unique integer identifier called id, a publicly viewable name (of type string), and an email address (also a string) that will double as a username. A summary of the data model for users appears in Figure 2.2.

       Figure 2.1 Creating a demo app repository at GitHub.

As we’ll see starting in Section 6.1.1, the label users in Figure 2.2 corresponds to a table in a database, and the id, name, and email attributes are columns in that table.