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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 > 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 > 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. hypermedia API up into separate components.
In that essay I explicitly recommend duplicating your API, in order to In that essay I explicitly recommend "duplicating" (to an extent) your API, in order to
disentangle your "churny" web application API endpoints (that are HTML) and your disentangle your "churny" web application API endpoints that return HTML from your
stable, regular & expressive JSON Data API. 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) [Model/View/Controller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller) (MVC)
pattern. pattern.
## An MVC Intro ## 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 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 web developers just don't have much experience with MVC.
Page Applications became the norm.
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. MVC is a simple pattern that predates the web and can be used in programs nearly any program that offer a graphical interface.