Re:Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?
by skrebbel on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:55AM
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Good point!
All that said, they mean that you should use separate controller-view pairs for entirely different pieces of the application. A nice example would be MS Word's document editor (1 view with 1 controller) and MS Word's Print Preview view (same model, but a separate view and a separate controller).
What I was getting at is that in backend-MVC (and backbonejs-MVC), you usually build a view, a controller and a model for each domain entity (i.e. for each database table). This is fundamentally different from what Krasner and Pope describe, and it probably won't work well for the kinds of dynamism and interactivity most single-page apps are single-page apps for. I believe this is the flavor of MVC the author is talking about.
In our case at TalkJS, we don't have anything like a print preview - essentially our entire application is a pretty unified piece of UI (much like MS Word's document editor which, while complex, is pretty much inseparable), so we have only one controller and one root view. I made the thinking mistake that most UIs only have one root view, and of course that's not true. So thanks for that.
All that said, they mean that you should use separate controller-view pairs for entirely different pieces of the application. A nice example would be MS Word's document editor (1 view with 1 controller) and MS Word's Print Preview view (same model, but a separate view and a separate controller).
What I was getting at is that in backend-MVC (and backbonejs-MVC), you usually build a view, a controller and a model for each domain entity (i.e. for each database table). This is fundamentally different from what Krasner and Pope describe, and it probably won't work well for the kinds of dynamism and interactivity most single-page apps are single-page apps for. I believe this is the flavor of MVC the author is talking about.
In our case at TalkJS, we don't have anything like a print preview - essentially our entire application is a pretty unified piece of UI (much like MS Word's document editor which, while complex, is pretty much inseparable), so we have only one controller and one root view. I made the thinking mistake that most UIs only have one root view, and of course that's not true. So thanks for that.