Is AngularJS really MVC?

Question

I'm looking through examples on the AngularJS home page — specifically “Add Some Control”. I don’t quite understand how it maps to MVC pattern.

It’s more or less clear that the template (index.html) can be thought of as the view, objects constructed by TodoCtrl from todo.js as the controller, but where is a model? Attributes like ng-model map to some internal pieces of the framework and don’t directly expose an object which we could call a model.

Is it correct to call AngularJS an MVC framework?

Answer 1

The core idea behind MVC is that you have clear separation in your code between managing its data (model), the application logic (controller), and presenting the data to the user (view). The view gets data from the model to display to the user. When a user interacts with the application by clicking or typing, the controller responds by changing data in the model. Finally, the model notifies the view that a change has occurred so that it can update what it displays. In Angular applications, the view is the Document Object Model (DOM), the controllers are JavaScript classes, and the model data is stored in object properties.