Posts from the 'Back to the Front-end: Exploring the Future of the Umbraco UI' series on mattbrailsford.devhttps://mattbrailsford.dev/series/back-to-the-frontendhttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-1-introductionhttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-1-introductionFor any Umbraco developer in the past few years there have been 2 major milestones on the horizon to prepare for. The first being the move to .NET...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:01 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-2-resourceshttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-2-resourcesTo start this series, I thought it would probably be a good idea to collate the various resources that are currently out there with information...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:02 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-3-glossaryhttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-3-glossaryNext up in this series, I think it would be worth creating a bit of a glossary of key tech / concepts that we are going to have to learn about in...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:03 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-4-web-componentshttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-4-web-componentsIf there is one fundamental cornerstone technology of the new back office UI, it really has to be Web Components. Everything from sections to...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:04 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-5-vitehttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-5-viteSo in our previous blog post about Web Components we mainly implemented them with vanilla JS, directly writing them in the browser. In reality...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:05 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-6-es-moduleshttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-6-es-modulesSo in the last blog post we introduced Vite and briefly mentioned that it is based around ES Modules, however as this isn’t a concept most will be...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:06 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-7-typescripthttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-7-typescriptThe next thing we’ll be taking a look at is TypeScript. This has been a bit of a divisive subject in Umbraco’s history as the community have tried...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:07 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-8-lithttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-8-litWhen HQ announced that a new backoffice UI was on the cards, by far the biggest question on everyones mind was “what framework will it be built...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:08 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-9-context-apihttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-9-context-apiContext API’s are an interesting new concept in the new backoffice UI, and really I think HQ themselves are still learning the best approach for...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:09 GMThttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-10-rxjshttps://mattbrailsford.dev/back-to-the-front-end-exploring-the-future-of-the-umbraco-ui-part-10-rxjsNext in this series of posts we take a look at what I think will likely be the thing that people struggle to get their head around the most (I know...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:10 GMT