What to Extract and What to Leave
For each of the collection, model, and view classes from Chapter 6, Project: MVC in Dart, we are now faced with the question of what to extract.
Collections: Everything but the Hard Stuff
As we did in Chapter 6, Project: MVC in Dart, we start with the core of the client-side MVC library: the collection. Since collections are loose code mappings to a REST-like back end, we ought to be able to extract much of ComicsCollection into a HipsterCollection superclass. Anything that is specific to comics books, such as the /comics URL, can stay in ComicsCollection. The rest (ideally) can move out to be reused with other REST-like back ends.
With everything else in HipsterCollection, ComicsCollection can be expressed ...
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