iOS Architecture Patterns: MVC, MVP, MVVM, VIPER, and VIP in Swift

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5. VIPER: View–Interactor–Presenter–Entity–Router

Raúl Ferrer García¹  

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Barcelona, Spain

 

What Is VIPER?

A Little History

VIPER was introduced in 2014 by Jeff Gilbert and Conrad Stoll and was the first attempt to apply the Clean Architecture (which we saw in Chapter 1), creating a series of components, each of which has a unique responsibility.¹

VIPER is an acronym for View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity, and Router, and what is achieved is to divide a functionality or implementation into five different layers, gathered within a module (Figure 5-1).

How It Works

The use of these components allows us to separate responsibilities within the application, ...