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JavaScript User Authentication With Express and Mongo Improving the App with Custom Middleware Using Session Variables to Customize Content

Posted by Donnie Reese
Donnie Reese
17,211 Points

Positives & Negatives in adding logic to the view in an MVC in this app's scenario?

From what I understand, the web app in this lesson is essentially following the MVC principles of dividing logic, data, and views. I am not very familiar with MVC frameworks, so what would be the potential positives and negatives of adding logic in to the view and content?

Also, is there another way to conditionally load logic with the Pug/Jade template engine other than inline conditional logic?

Tom Geraghty
Tom Geraghty
24,174 Points
Tom Geraghty
Tom Geraghty
24,174 Points

As to your second question: there's a lot that Pug can do such as: Attributes Case Code Comments Conditionals Doctype Filters Includes Inheritance: Extends and Block Interpolation Iteration Mixins Plain Text Tags

For logical ops, see: https://pugjs.org/language/iteration.html