Core Principle
The Birth of the Form Abstraction
Why Cotomy ended up with multiple form layers, and how that structure came from the gap between desktop application habits and web runtime reality.
Why Cotomy ended up with multiple form layers, and how that structure came from the gap between desktop application habits and web runtime reality.
Why page-level control became necessary and how the first PageController design appeared.
How I struggled to bind logic to individual pages, and how controller classes gradually gave my TypeScript library framework-like properties.
How unstructured API calls became the next bottleneck, and how form classification reshaped my TypeScript foundation.
How ElementWrap emerged from jQuery migration and CSS collapse, and how scoped styling reshaped my UI architecture.
How working as a solo internal engineer reshaped my architectural thinking.