Chapter 9. A Shopping Application

In this chapter, we'll design one last application from start to finish. Rather than continuing to introduce new ideas or techniques to visualize and construct an application architecture, we'll double up on the work we've done so far. We'll incorporate routes, view models, and events in order to consolidate everything that's been discussed, and we'll create design documentation to inform the application's structure.

In each chapter of this book so far, I've tried to stress that there's no "one true way" to application architecture. Every application is different; there is plenty of room for interpretation. At the beginning of the book, we discussed the MVC and MVVM design patterns and what an architect must find is their own pattern (a way of working that feels natural). More than this, a pattern is something that emerges because of a regularity in our work, that is, repeating the same thing...