Now Component Concepts

My rough notes on this, as I get more understanding I'll update this... Sometimes called Tectonic or UI21

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/now-experience/rome/ui-framework/main-concepts/view

Virtual DOM

Snabbdom: This is the virtual dom library they use under the hood - tltoulson

State Store / Application State Management

Redux is one of the most popular state stores in use and ServiceNow drew inspiration from it in creating the Now Experience Framework - tltoulson

Actions

Reducers

One Direction Data Flow

Hooks

• React Hooks: Seems to be the inspiration for Effects and how the DOM is tied to the state in NowX (https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html)

Effects

Web Components

Component Based UI

Shadow DOM

Tooling