UI With Noria
published on 2023/06/21
Interestingly, Noria is not a UI framework at its core. Instead, it’s a platform for incremental computations. Imagine a large multi-part mathematical formula with interdependent components that sometimes have to be recalculated or trigger the recalculation of dependent components – not unlike a spreadsheet. Noria shines at computing and recomputing these sorts of formulas. The main principle here is to avoid any unnecessary computations and to recompute only the parts required to produce the final result.
What about the UI, then? Well, it’s also such a formula. It has a tree-like structure built of components and subcomponents. Those components may also have other dependencies besides being a part of another component. This makes a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of dependencies. A change of state in one of the components also triggers a change in another component that depends on it, directly or indirectly.
This is interesting read about JetBrains internal home grown UI framework.