Chapter 5. Views and Templating

Views are the interface to your application; they’re what the end user actually interacts with and sees. In our case, views are logicless HTML fragments managed by the application’s controllers, which deal with event handlers and interpolating data. This is where it can be quite tempting to break the MVC abstraction by including logic directly into your views. Don’t succumb to that temptation! You’ll end up with senseless spaghetti code.

One of the biggest architectural changes you’ll have to make when moving server-side applications to the client side is with views. Traditionally, you could just interpolate server-side data with HTML fragments, creating new pages. However, views in JavaScript applications are somewhat different.