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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development: An in-depth guide to building scalable and maintainable single-page applications in JavaScript

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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Chapter 2. Model-View-Whatever

If you are a frontend developer, you may not be familiar with the traditional software architectural pattern referred to as Model-View-Controller (MVC). Variations of this pattern have found their way into frontend software architectural patterns in recent years through such frameworks as Backbone.js, Ember.js, and AngularJS. Regardless of your experience in these areas, this chapter will discuss the evolution of the so-called Model-View-Whatever (MVW) pattern and its relevance to SPA development through the following topic areas:

  • The original MVC pattern
  • Model-View-Presentation (MVP)/Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) explained
  • View-Interactor-Presenter-Entity-Router (VIPER) and other variations of MVW
  • AngularJS and MVW
  • Using the MVW pattern in a SPA

The original MVC pattern

The MVC software architectural pattern has existed in one form or another since the 1970s, but it became more popular and generally accepted with its use in web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, and Django. MVC frameworks like these brought a higher level of organization and sophistication to web application development than had been previously conceived, and in doing so, paved the way for modern SPA development.

To understand the relevance of MVC to modern SPA development, let's first break down the components and ideology of MVC.

The Model

The Model component of MVC deals with an application's data. This includes data that is displayed to the user, received from the user, and stored in the database. Additionally, the Model handles all Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations with the database. Many frameworks also use the Model to handle an application's business logic, or how the data should be manipulated before being...

MVP and MVVM

The term Model-View-Whatever came about amid the rise of many architectural patterns that included a Model and a View, but replaced the Controller with a different concept for a core component, or even with a number of them.

MVP

MVP is a variation on the MVC architectural pattern in which the Presenter component replaces the Controller. The Presenter also acts as the Controller in this pattern, but it takes on additional responsibility in that it serves to handle presentation logic for the View. The reasoning behind this paradigm is to enhance the testability of an application by having the View itself contain little to no presentation logic.

Another key difference between MVP and MVC is that a Presenter in MVP has a one-to-one relationship with a View, meaning there is a unique Presenter defined for every View, whereas MVC allows the Controller to have a one-to-many relationship with the View. In other words, MVC allows there to be any number of Views defined for a Controller...

VIPER and other variations of MVW

The primary reason that modern architectural patterns have moved away from MVC is that the Controller in MVC generally embodies too much application code and becomes unwieldy, thereby being difficult to test. This has led to patterns that not only replace the Controller with something else, but that add multiple layers in its place to further establish a separation of concerns within an application.

VIPER

In the world of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, MVC was long encouraged as the pattern to follow. More recently, however, many iOS developers have moved away from pure MVC and have adopted patterns that establish more than just three layers within an application's architecture. One of these patterns is VIPER, which stands for View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity, and Routing (or Router).

Let's briefly cover what each of these components is:

  • View: Just as with MVC, the View represents the user interface.
  • Interactor: Contains the business...

AngularJS and MVW

AngularJS is a frontend JavaScript framework for building web applications, and it is a core component of the MEAN stack. It provides developers with the ability to use custom HTML attributes and elements to drive behavior within an app. It also provides some handy features such as two-way data binding and dependency injection.

A brief history of AngularJS

AngularJS began as a side project of two Google developers, but eventually became an official Google open source project. Since its inception, it has undergone many changes in its methodology, including a transition away from touting MVC as its pattern of choice. Instead, the AngularJS team now labels it as a JavaScript MVW framework (at the time of writing).

The reason for the declaration of AngularJS to be MVW was in response to extensive debate and confusion from the developer community over what pattern AngularJS follows. The label itself may not be important to some developers, but it is important in highlighting the...

The original MVC pattern

The MVC software architectural pattern has existed in one form or another since the 1970s, but it became more popular and generally accepted with its use in web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, and Django. MVC frameworks like these brought a higher level of organization and sophistication to web application development than had been previously conceived, and in doing so, paved the way for modern SPA development.

To understand the relevance of MVC to modern SPA development, let's first break down the components and ideology of MVC.

The Model

The Model component of MVC deals with an application's data. This includes data that is displayed to the user, received from the user, and stored in the database. Additionally, the Model handles all Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations with the database. Many frameworks also use the Model to handle an application's business logic, or how the data should be manipulated before being saved or viewed,...

MVP and MVVM

The term Model-View-Whatever came about amid the rise of many architectural patterns that included a Model and a View, but replaced the Controller with a different concept for a core component, or even with a number of them.

MVP

MVP is a variation on the MVC architectural pattern in which the Presenter component replaces the Controller. The Presenter also acts as the Controller in this pattern, but it takes on additional responsibility in that it serves to handle presentation logic for the View. The reasoning behind this paradigm is to enhance the testability of an application by having the View itself contain little to no presentation logic.

Another key difference between MVP and MVC is that a Presenter in MVP has a one-to-one relationship with a View, meaning there is a unique Presenter defined for every View, whereas MVC allows the Controller to have a one-to-many relationship with the View. In other words, MVC allows there to be any number of Views defined for a Controller...

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  • *Build large-scale, feature-complete SPAs by leveraging widely used tools and techniques.
  • *Gain a solid understanding of architecture and SPA design to build applications using the library or framework of your choice.
  • *Explore the various facets of SPA development to build web apps that are fast, scalable, and easy to test.

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Single-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser. This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease. You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS. This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application. In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.

Who is this book for?

This book is ideal for JavaScript developers who want to build complex single-page applications in JavaScript. Some basic understanding of SPA concepts will be helpful but not essential.

What you will learn

  • *Organize your development environment using the command line with NPM, Bower, and Grunt.
  • *Choose an accurate design pattern for your app
  • *Understand modular JavaScript programming and Node.js
  • *Interact with a REST API using JavaScript and AJAX with practical examples
  • *Build a single page application using the MEAN stack
  • *Connect your app across popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
  • *Test your app, both on the server side and in views
  • *Prepare your app for the real world and deploy it to Heroku

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