What we'll build in this book

For the rest of this book, we will create a simple social network that is similar to Twitter. Let's call it Verge.

Verge will allow users to sign up, log in, and create posts. By building this application, we'll jump over the same hurdles that most developers do when they build an application, and we'll learn to rely on CouchDB for some of the heavy lifting.

In order to build Verge, we are going to make a light PHP wrapper that will handle the basic routing and HTTP requests that we mentioned in the previous chapter. Let's call this framework Bones.