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@ -12,22 +12,24 @@ A common objection I see to using htmx and hypermedia is something along the lin
> The problem with returning HTML (and not JSON) from your server is that you'd probably also like to serve mobile
> apps and don't want to duplicate your API
I have outlined in [another essay](@/essays/splitting-your-apis.md) that I think you should split your JSON API & your
I have already outlined in [another essay](@/essays/splitting-your-apis.md) that I think you should split your JSON API & your
hypermedia API up into separate components.
In that essay I explicitly recommend duplicating your API, in order to
disentangle your "churny" web application API endpoints (that are HTML) and your
In that essay I explicitly recommend "duplicating" (to an extent) your API, in order to
disentangle your "churny" web application API endpoints that return HTML from your
stable, regular & expressive JSON Data API.
I think that in my discussions so far I have failed to communicate one major background concept: the
In looking back at conversations I've had around this idea with people, I think that I have been assuming familiarity
with a pattern that, perhaps, many people are as deeply familiar with as I am: the
[Model/View/Controller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller) (MVC)
pattern.
## An MVC Intro
I was a little shocked to discover [in a recent podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H5VK9vJ-aw) that many younger
web developers don't have much experience with MVC, perhaps due to the Front-end/Back-end split that occurred when Single
Page Applications became the norm.
web developers just don't have much experience with MVC.
This is perhaps due to the Front-end/Back-end split that occurred when Single Page Applications became the norm.
MVC is a simple pattern that predates the web and can be used in programs nearly any program that offer a graphical interface.