iOS Architecture Patterns : Demystifying MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER
Feeling weird while doing MVC in iOS? Have doubts about switching to MVVM? Heard about VIPER, but not sure if it worth it? Keep reading, and you will find answers to questions above, if you don’t — feel free to complain in comments. You are about to structure your knowledge about architectural patterns in iOS environment. We’ll briefly review some popular ones and compare them in theory and practice going over a few tiny examples. Follow links if you need more details about any particular one. Mastering design patterns might be addictive, so beware: you might end up asking yourself more questions now than before reading this article, like these: Who supposed to own networking request: a Model or a Controller? How do I pass a Model into a View Model of a new View? Why care about choosing the architecture? Because if you don’t, one day, debugging a huge class with dozens different things, you’ll find yourself being unable to find and fix any bugs in your class.”. Naturally