MVC Definition:

MVC is the acronym for Model–View–Controller. It is basically a software design pattern which is mostly applied and used to develop the user interfaces dividing the related program logic into interconnected elements.

MVC is applied to separate internal representations of information from the ways information is presented to and accepted from the user.

This software design pattern is traditionally used for desktop Graphical User Interface or the GUIs. The GUIs turned useful and therefore, popular for designing different web application purposes. This is the primary reason why the MVC became popular programming languages.

History of MVC

MVC is now about 50 years old.

In the 1970s, Trygve Reenskaug introduced MVC into Smalltalk-79 while visiting the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

In the 1980s, the modern format of MVC was put into implementation by Jim Althoff and others who used it for the Smalltalk-80 class library.

1996, the use of the MVC pattern in web applications grew after the introduction of NeXT’s WebObjects. The use of MVC gained momentum after 2002 when Spring was introduced. It had a strong bond between Java and MVC.

In July and December respectively in 2005, the frameworks  Django (July 2005, for Python) was introduced followed by Rails (December 2005, for Ruby).

With this, the popularity of MVC’s increased globally.

Utility of MVCs

MVCs have major utilities.

MVCs act as the application’s dynamic data structure. This is independent of the user interface.  One of the many utilities of MVC is that it directly manages the data, logic, and rules of the application. 

It enables multiple viewing of any representation of information such as a bar chart, diagram, map, data-table, or other numerical tables. It also acts as an effective controller accepting input and converting the command to the model or view.

Conclusion:

MVCs now have emerged as an ultra-sophisticated management tool to implement various commands in a controlled regime. It receives user input from the controller and the view renders the presentation of the model in a particular format.

MVC also acts as the “core of the solution” to a problem while allowing it to be adapted for each system.