Editing Model–view–controller (section)

{{Short description|Software design pattern}}
[[File:MVC-Process.svg|right|200px|thumb|Diagram of interactions in MVC's Smalltalk-80 interpretation]]

'''Model–view–controller''' ('''MVC''') is a software [[architectural pattern]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TH-Y78tt4&t=1667|title = The Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin|website = [[YouTube]]| date=15 December 2015 }}</ref> commonly used for developing [[user interface]]s that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements. These elements are:
* the '''[[model]]''', the internal representations of information
* the '''view''', the interface that presents information to and accepts it from the user
* the '''controller''', the software linking the two.<ref name = "Reenskaug and Coplien, Artima, 2009" >{{ Cite web | url = https://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html | title = The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming | access-date = 3 August 2019 | quote = More deeply, the framework exists to separate the representation of information from user interaction. | first1 = Trygve | last1 = Reenskaug | first2 = James O. | last2 = Coplien | date = 20 March 2009 |website = Artima Developer | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090323032904/https://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html | archive-date = 23 March 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>Burbeck (1992): "... the user input, the modeling of the external world, and the visual feedback to the user are explicitly separated and handled by three types of object."</ref>

Traditionally used for desktop [[graphical user interface]]s (GUIs), this pattern became popular for designing [[web application]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blog.iandavis.com/2008/12/what-are-the-benefits-of-mvc/|title=What Are The Benefits of MVC?|last=Davis|first=Ian|newspaper=Internet Alchemy|access-date=2016-11-29}}</ref> Popular programming languages have MVC frameworks that facilitate the implementation of the pattern.

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