CotomyForm in Practice

A practical guide to Cotomy form classes, including QueryForm, ApiForm, EntityApiForm, and EntityFillApiForm, with real override points and usage examples.

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.

Building Business Screens with Cotomy

A practical guide showing how I usually structure search screens, edit screens, and read-only screens in Razor Pages with Cotomy.

API Standardization and the Birth of Form Architecture

How unstructured API calls became the next bottleneck, and how form classification reshaped my TypeScript foundation.

Form AJAX Standardization

Why Cotomy standardizes query-string search, AJAX submit, and shared form contracts to control long-term cost in business systems.

CotomyApi in Practice

How CotomyApi is used in real screens: HTTP methods, options, exception mapping, key collisions, and explicit UI updates.

CotomyElement Value and Form Behavior

How CotomyElement handles value, text, and what actually gets sent in POST requests.

CotomyPageController in Practice

Design screen entry first with CotomyPageController, then structure CRUD flow around one endpoint boundary.

Working with CotomyElement

Binding, creating, and managing UI structure with CotomyElement in real DOM-centric workflows.