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Agreed. It also highlights that you don't need an mvc frameworks for web app. Due to the popularity of framework such as Rails, many assume a framework is the only way to go. Powerful client JavaScript library is changing how people develop web apps.

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Even though you are right and it is certainly not necessary to use an MVC framework to build a web-app such as this, you'll have to agree that the thoughts behind using such a framework are important (data/code/interface separation). But that doesn't mean MVC is a hammer for any nail.

Except that this webapp is absolutely built with an MVC framework — it's just that the M, V, and C are in different places than they are in the dogmatic arrangement.

MVC is not a fixed design, it's a legitimate universal Design Pattern (unlike most of the GoF book). It's a shared nomenclature for describing the arrangement of concerns, not a prescriptive blueprint.

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