Hi,

I'm new to Umbraco development and want to pick up any best practices early on.

I'm following a tutorial that is building a navigation model.

We have a layout controller that inherits SurfaceController to access the current page and build the nav.

    private List<NavigationListItem> GetNavigationModelFromDatabase()
    {
        IPublishedContent homePage = CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf().Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "home").FirstOrDefault();
        var nav = new List<NavigationListItem>();
        nav.Add(new NavigationListItem(new NavigationLink(homePage.Url, homePage.Name)));
        nav.AddRange(Utils.GetChildNavigationList(homePage));
        return nav;
    }

I've put some functionality in a "utils" class but the above method obviously needs Umbraco specific stuff from the SurfaceController. Would you leave this here or move it somewhere else?

Thank you