Is MVC a design pattern or an architectural pattern?

Mahi 41 Reputation points
2022-05-02T12:57:49.767+00:00

I have confused with the conflict between design pattern and an architectural pattern. I find MVC, MVVM, etc.. under architectural pattern but MVC is described as

  1. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern which separates an application into three main groups of components: Models, Views, and Controllers.
  2. MVC is abbreviated as Model View Controller is a design pattern created for developing applications specifically web applications.

Kindly update.

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  1. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 55,686 Reputation points
    2022-05-02T15:50:59.217+00:00

    all architectural patterns are design patterns, but not all design patterns are architectural. its called architectural when its high level pattern chosen in the application design phase.

    note: MVC is an old pattern and predates web applications. It originated with Smalltalk-80

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  1. Olaf Helper 40,816 Reputation points
    2022-05-02T13:53:35.213+00:00

    Where do you see the difference between architectural and design pattern in context of software development; I don't see one?

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  2. Yijing Sun-MSFT 7,066 Reputation points
    2022-05-03T03:31:09.717+00:00

    Hi @Mahi ，
    I think there are some semantic conflicts. Now, you could understand the mvc and mvc design pattern.
    MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a pattern in software design commonly used to implement user interfaces, data, and controlling logic.

    MVC is a presentation pattern (Presentation Patterns), which should be compared with MVP and MVVM. The entire MVC can exist on the presentation layer of the three-tier architecture, and the Model acts as a view model. The three-tier architecture is an architecture pattern (Architecture Pattern), which stands in a more macro perspective to guide the system design. Things like UI, BLL, DAL can even be isolated at the physical level.

    Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern is an acronym for three words, which are Model, View, and Controller instead of MVC application.

    Best regards,
    Yijing Sun

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