Design Patterns by Tutorials: MVVM
Learn how and when to use the architecture-slash-design pattern of MVVM in this free chapter from our new book, Design Patterns by Tutorials! By Jay Strawn.
Where to Go From Here?
You learned about the MVVM pattern in this chapter. This is a great pattern to help combat massive view controller syndrome and organize your model-to-view transformation code.
However, it doesn’t completely solve the massive view controller problem. Doesn’t it seem odd the view controller is switching on rating to create view models? What would happen if you wanted to introduce a new case, or even an entirely different view model? You’ll have to use another pattern to handle this: the Factory pattern.
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Move from the basic building blocks of patterns such as MVC, Delegate and Strategy, into more advanced patterns such as the Factory, Prototype and Multicast Delegate pattern, and finish off with some less-common but still incredibly useful patterns including Flyweight, Command and Chain of Responsibility.
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