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Book Complete: [SDKs & UI Libraries] Computed Properties. Conclusion
With this post, my book dedicated to APIs is complete! Let's revisit one of the problems we outlined in the “Problems of Introducing UI Components…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] Shared Resources and Asynchronous Locks
Another important pattern we need to discuss is accessing shared resources. Imagine that in our study application, opening an offer panel required…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] The Backend-Driven UI
Another method of reducing the complexity of building “bridges” that connect different subject areas in one component is to eliminate one of them. For…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] The MV* Frameworks
One obvious approach to reducing the complexity of implementing the multi-layered component hierarchies we described in the previous chapter is to…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] Decomposing UI Components
Let's try to understand why the requirement to allow the replacement of a component's subsystems with alternative implementations leads to a dramatic…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] Problems of Introducing UI Components
Introducing UI components to an SDK brings an additional dimension to an already complex setup comprising a low-level API and a client wrapper on top of…
[SDKs & UI Libraries] Introduction. Problems and Solutions
The term “SDK” (which stands for “Software Development Kit”) lacks concrete meaning. The common understanding is that an SDK differs from an API as it…
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