Hello, dear readers, and welcome to my thoughts on the MVP (Model-View-Presenter) pattern, which I finally got around to learning. I had tried before, but everybody always explained it so abstractly that, even when compared to MVVM abstractly, I couldn’t tell what it was. But I recently got to see the pattern being implemented in some live-coding episodes I don’t really have a whole lot to share; I’m focusing on one mini anti-pattern within the typical implementation that I’d like to provide alternative ideas for.
General Thoughts on MVP
First, I will give you my overall thoughts on MVP. My first thought about it is, “Is this really any different than MVC?” And truly, MVP is pretty much what I had always thought of MVC to be. The problem wasn’t MVC, in my opinion, but what so many people had come to think MVC was. Having heard what Uncle Bob has said about MVC, it’s clear that there has been severe “evolution” to the community’s understanding of MVC, but the MVC I was taught in college is almost exactly the same thing as MVP, with all the differences being negligible compared to the differences between my understanding of MVC and so many others’ understanding. Continue Reading
