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What are the advantages of the VIPER architecture compared to MVC?

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VIPER architecture divides responsibilities into five components: View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity, and Router. This provides clearer modularity and easier maintenance compared to MVC, where the ViewController often becomes too overloaded (Massive View Controller).

Advantages of VIPER over MVC:

  • Clear separation of responsibilities: each component is responsible for its part of the logic.
  • Better testability: business logic is isolated in the Interactor, simplifying the writing of unit tests.
  • Improved scalability: easier to add new features without changing existing code.
  • Explicit navigation: the Router handles transitions between screens, simplifying navigation management.

Example: in MVC, the ViewController contains both display logic and business logic, whereas in VIPER these responsibilities are divided between the Presenter and Interactor.