ViewModel

A ViewModel is a DTO that makes its way all the way up to the UI, hydrating datapoints in views. As a DTO it is something other than what Valerio De Sanctis refers to as a "model domain object" on page 75 of "ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5" and is instead a DTO made from the miniETL processes that we undertake to transform our core objects into more suit-to-purpose ones.