Creating reusable components with view components

- [Instructor] At this point in the course, … I've shown you how to create controllers that contain … the application logic, views that contain the mark up … that the user sees, and even ways to re-use that mark up … in the form of layouts and partial views. … But there's one scenario that isn't easily solved … by these features, to find a good example of this … we have to look no further than the home page … of our sample application. … See this section labeled monthly specials? … In the left-hand column? … That section is currently just hard coded HTML … in our layout, but if it had a real implementation … it would involve going to the database … and grabbing the latest monthly specials. … Now if that were in a normal view that would be … no problem, since the controller would simply … retrieve the required data, and pass it to the view. … However since this markup is in our layout, … every single action that implemented this layout … would have to know how to get these monthly specials. …