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I’m new to MVC structure and feel it’s harder to get things done because it’s a new way of doing things. Are there anybody who has experience of MVC vs. pages way of doing things. Is the MVC way of doing it the holy graal now or is there still value doing ordinary object-oriented development (or even procedural pages webdev)? Is MVC a fad?
To MVC or not is mostly up to the needs of your project. Sometimes I have simple stuff that doesn’t need the Model, but can still benefit from a controller/view arrangement. In those cases I might go with a micro-framework ( for PHP that would be limonade ) or even less. Still the majority of my web projects are MVC applications.
I started making websites around 1996-1997, everything was kind of new and there was no sense to what might be a good or bad idea in the long run. Around 2005 when I left the military and got back into web development it wasn’t that enjoyable to fight through rat’s nest of organically designed code. So When I was introduced to Ruby on Rails and the concept of MVC, I instantly recognized for myself that this was a game changer.
As MVC is increasingly adopted in more and more web projects, its paving the way for the next generations of developer’s lives to be a little easier and more productive by providing common ground across companies and projects. Yes MVC is a little tough to swallow when going from the upfront simplicity of cooperative script to page projects but anything worth doing isn’t going to be that easy right?
With all that said, if you get a good grounding in MVC in one language, it can provide a mental common ground for you to learn other languages. As for how long MVC will last as a dominant framework design pattern, the software industry is like a desert, everyday things change and great ideas become eclipsed by better ones (XHR for websockets, embedded objects for native audio/video tags) but I think whatever finally dethrones MVC will be somewhat similar because it doesn’t really matter how great an idea is if only a very small portion of people understand it.