React MVC Project – SEO Content + Movies & Books Example

📌 Project Overview

This project demonstrates the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern using React + Vite.
It features:

• A Markdown-rendered SEO overview using react-markdown
• Advantages & disadvantages of SEO
• MVC folder structure
• Basic use of React Router for navigating between different views like Movies and Books

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✅ What I’ve Learned

• How to structure a React app using the MVC pattern
• How to render Markdown in React using react-markdown and remark-gfm
• Basics of React Routing (react-router-dom)
• Separation of concerns: Keeping logic (Controller), data (Model), and UI (View) separate
• How to integrate custom content like SEO articles, movies, and books

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🔄 MVC Breakdown

• Model: Stores the content (e.g., SEO markdown, movies, books)
• View: React components responsible for rendering the UI
• Controller: Middle layer that retrieves model data and passes it to views

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✅ Advantages of MVC

• 📁 Clear separation of concerns
• ♻️ Reusable components and logic
• 🔄 Easier to manage and scale large apps
• 🧪 Simplifies testing and debugging

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❌ Disadvantages of MVC

• ⚙️ More setup and boilerplate for smaller apps
• 💡 Might feel overengineered if you're building a very simple SPA
• 🚧 Harder for beginners to grasp initially

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📂 Features Demonstrated

• react-router-dom for navigating between:

  • Home (SEO)
  • Movies View
  • Books View

• Markdown content rendering

• Simple reusable components

• Clean file separation based on MVC

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🚀 Project Structure

src/
├── controllers/
│   └── seoController.js
├── models/
│   ├── seoModel.js
│   ├── booksModel.js
│   └── moviesModel.js
├── views/
│   ├── SEOView.jsx
│   ├── BooksView.jsx
│   └── MoviesView.jsx
├── App.jsx
└── main.jsx