JavaScript Model-View-* patterns

Model-View-Controller (MVC), Model-View-Presenter (MVP), and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) have been popular with server applications, but in recent years JavaScript applications are also using these patterns to structure and manage large projects. Many JavaScript frameworks have emerged that support MV* patterns. We will discuss a few examples using Backbone.js.

Model-View-Controller

MVC is a popular structural pattern where the idea is to divide an application into three parts so as to separate the internal representations of information from the presentation layer. MVC consists of components. The model is the application object, view is the presentation of the underlying model object, and controller handles the ...

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