The separation of concerns that’s quoted as being an advantage of MVC is actually also an advance of a 3-layer/3-tier system. There too, the business logic is independent and can be used from different presentation tiers. A main difference is that in classic MVC the model can have a reference back to the view. This … Read more
The MVC paradigm is a design pattern where you organize your application in with the following structure. The Model: this is where you should keep your data model, the algorithms. For example if you write a spreadsheet application, you would keep the data structure of your spreadsheet. You would have the computation engine in your … Read more
I recognize that this question is old, but still: Why don’t you just redirect the “empty” URL to one containing the default productId? myModule.config([‘$routeProvider’, function($routeProvider) { $routeProvider. when(‘/products/’, {redirectTo: ‘/products/123’}). when(‘/products/:productId’, {templateUrl: ‘products.html’, controller: ProductsCtrl}) }]);
Express.js seems to very popular to use as a general framework. Combined with socketio.js and underscore.js these are very popular libraries but they are not MVC. For MVC I’ve only used backbone.js / spine.js and can’t give any recommendation for the others. I don’t think there is a framework with a dominating popularity going yet … Read more
OK.. first the terms: Frontend – are the parts, which are visible to users: HTML, CSS, client-side Javascript. It all is basically “frontend”. In a desktop application frontend would be the GUI. Backend – is the invisible part. In web applications that is your java, ruby, php or any other serverside code. It can be … Read more
In your view, you have to cast it back to the original type. Without the cast, it’s just an object. <td>@((ViewBag.data as ICollection<Person>).First().FirstName)</td> ViewBag is a C# 4 dynamic type. Entities returned from it are also dynamic unless cast. However, extension methods like .First() and all the other Linq ones do not work with dynamics. … Read more
Usually REST backends handle single instance creation/update. You would need to change that to accept an array of objects. That said, on the client side, you would need to go directly to the Backbone.sync function Backbone.sync = function(method, model, options) In this case your model should be an array of model. The method should be … Read more
I think this is a grey area. One could argue that the user access is part of the mapping between the HTTP world and the Object-Oriented world. This is what the controller is intended for (hence the heavy use of statics), to transform the incoming request, ready to process the business rules on the domain … Read more
No, Drupal follows the PAC (Presentation-Abstraction-Control) model rather than MVC. There is an excellent blog post explaining this at Larry Garfield’s site.
Mate is my pick. The first and foremost reason is that it is completely unobtrusive. My application code has no dependencies on the framework, it is highly decoupled, reusable and testable. One of the nicest features of Mate is the declarative configuration, essentially you wire up your application in using tags in what is called … Read more