What the platform is
Where the platform stands, why nothing is installed, and a first screen in ten lines.
Intro4 lessons24 min
- 1Where This Stands — Where It Started and What We Are ProposingThirteen pieces set two axes: who owns the business, and who owns the window. This one folds them into a paragraph, states where this started with the public record, and says that the seat for constrained environments and physical devices is still empty. Including what the domain does from here.5 min
- 2There Is No Such Unit as an Install — Edit It and the Next Connection Already Has ItIn the world of installed software the unit of distribution is a binary, so changing one line on a screen means building, reviewing and downloading. Here the unit is a document handed over when you connect. Edit it, open it again, and that is the screen — the unattended-store sample carries before and after in the same run. And this is also why there is no owner of a store.5 min
- 3A Folder of JSON Is the App — There Is No Code in a BundleWe built the owner-facing app for an unmanned store. The source is four JSON files and no compilation. Follow a route to the second screen, edit some text and the screen changes — no build runs. Except only the screen changes; the items stay. That split is this piece's subject.9 min
- 4Putting Up Your First Screen in Ten LinesBuilding a waiting-room number board. The screen definition is nine lines, and those nine lines are not inside the client. The server holds them as a file and hands them over on connect. That is what "no build, no install" means.5 min