MVC pattern overview MVC offers architectural benefits over standard JavaScript — it helps you write better organized, and therefore more maintainable code. This pattern has been used and extensively tested over multiple languages and generations of programmers. MVC is composed of three components: Model Model is where the application’s data objects are stored. The model doesn’t know anything about views and controllers. When a model changes, typically it will notify its observers that a change has occurred. View View is what's presented to the users and how users interact with the app. The view is made with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and often templates. This part of your Chrome App has access to the DOM. For example, in the above todo list web app, you can create a view that nicely presents the list of todo items to your users. Users can also enter a new todo item through some input format; however, the view doesn’t know how to update the model because that’s th...