alt Hacker NewsI've always felt MDD falls short very quickly, because for non-trivial project you often want to show information related to more than one table, and so you have to fallback to writing the controller code manually anyway.
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johnmaguire • 05/14/2025
Your models/resources do not need to have a 1:1 mapping to your data store.
Yep, it can fall down if you force it everywhere. Read views are typically where custom "view models" are needed. For example on my current project with ~30 tables/models (https://humancrm.io), there are only a couple custom user views, and a couple custom write functions to simplify the UI flow. The rest of the API is generated from the data models. I take a pragmatic approach and don't force everything into MDD if there is a clear need.