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Creating Decentralized Frontends and components w/ BOS Web Engine

A BWE component looks, for the most part, like a standard React component. There are some syntactical variations and essential enhancements to adapt seamlessly to the engine's framework.

Terms​

  • Outer Window Application (OWA) - The application responsible for rendering Components and brokers messages between containers.

  • Components - The functions returning JSX to be rendered in BOS Web Engine. Their source is stored on chain in the SocialDB contract.

  • Root Component - The top-level Component loaded by the outer application.

  • Containers - Provide the runtime context for one or more Components. They are implemented as sandboxed <iframe>s, communicating with other containers via the outer window application's window.postMessage method.