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Design your webapp with MVC

Now that you have an idea of the pages your webapp needs to provide, your
next question should be: what’s the best way to build this thing?

Ask 10 web developers that question and you’ll get 10 different answers; the
answer often depends on whom you ask.
Despite this, the general consensus is that great webapps conform to the
Model-View-Controller pattern, which helps you segment your webapp’s code
into easily manageable functional chunks (or components):

The Model
The code to store (and sometimes process) your webapp’s data

The View
The code to format and display your webapp’s user interface(s)

The Controller
The code to glue your webapp together and provide its business logic

By following the MVC pattern, you build your webapp in such as way as to
enable your webapp to grow as new requirements dictate. You also open up the
possibility of splitting the workload among a number of people, one for each
component.

Let’s build each of the MVC components for your webapp.

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