ServiceNow, Inc.
System for Building and Modeling Web Pages

Abstract:

Disclosed is a computing system configured to receive input declaring structure of a web page, including declarations of component hierarchy and data-binding between components of the web page, and to responsively generate and store, cooperatively in a plurality of tables of a database, a representation of the web page including references to underlying scripts interpretable to define structure and operation of the components. Further, the computing system is configured to thereafter receive, from a client device, a request for such a page and, in response to the request, (i) to query the database in order to ascertain component tree-structure of the page, (ii) based on the ascertained component tree-structure, to construct a markup document that represents the ascertained component tree-structure and includes a component loader operative to load the underlying scripts, and (iii) to output the constructed markup document for rendering by a web browser executing on the client device.