Stop Using MVVM

The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern has long been a cornerstone in building maintainable and testable UIs across frameworks like WPF, Xamarin, Uno Platform, and others. It provides a clean separation of concerns and enables powerful data binding. But despite its popularity and maturity, MVVM often introduces unnecessary complexity and friction—particularly when it comes to state management … Read more

Feeds in MVUX

In the past three posts (Getting Started, Comparison with MVVM and Incremental Loading) I’ve talked about the use of Model-View-Update-eXtended (MVUX). In this post we’re going look at feeds, which is one of the key components of MVUX. What’s a Feed In simple terms, a feed represents a stream of values, much like an Observable … Read more

Incremental Loading (Pagination) with MVVM and MVUX

In my first post in this sequence on MVVM and MVUX we built out a simple application that searched movies in The Mobile Database (TMDB) using the text entered to match against the movie title. What’s interesting about the TMDB api is that the search results are actually paginated with the initial request only returning … Read more