I am confused when I should use a custom widget or renderPartial in my view files. Sometimes I use widget and sometimes I use renderPartial.
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I am confused when I should use a custom widget or renderPartial in my view files. Sometimes I use widget and sometimes I use renderPartial.
Widget
You use widget when your application logic is defined in a separate CLASS file and the logic is somehow separated and standalone.
Widget’s are chosen when the functionality is repeatedly used elsewhere, on lot of pages.
renderPartial
You use renderPartial for VIEW files that you want to embed into something bigger, or when you want to print something without using the application layouts.
renderPartial is chosen when all the variables it need to access are already prepared in the current action.