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by neovive 5288 days ago
Coming from server-side MVC dev, the line "Views: The meat of our business logic occurs here." was surprising. I thought the point of MVC was to decouple the logic from the views.

PS: I'm about to start reading the new Javascript Web Applications book by Alex MacCaw as I'm very interested in learning more client-side development. This is very new to me.
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bemaniac 5288 days ago
Yeah, it seems weird, but that's the way it works in Backbone (at least for us). Views are more similar to iOS' UIViewController than a Rails view.

Backbone views handle event binding and rendering, so they're more similar to Rails controllers, if anything.

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jashkenas 5288 days ago
... that's not always the case. I don't know if there's enough out there yet to establish a canon, but we try to keep most reusable business logic in the models, and leave views to UI concerns. If you want to browse around:

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/tree/master/p...

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bemaniac 5287 days ago
To rephrase, we found that most logic in our app was view/event/interaction-related, and we found that keeping that stuff in the views made more sense for us.
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