UI Components

Need

• Reused across environments
• Loaded server-side
• Loaded client-side

Blocks of content/behavior that can be:

Design goals

• Full power of layouts
• MVC routing conventions
• Standard dependency interface
• Basic content negotiation
• Server- and client-side loaders

public interface IComponentManifest
{
    string HtmlBody { get; set; }
    IEnumerable<string> Styles { get; set; }
    IEnumerable<string> HeadScripts { get; set; }
    IEnumerable<string> BodyScripts { get; set; }
}

Use when

• You have a self-contained chunk of content and behavior
   
• You need to share functionality between different environments (e.g., Web and MVC)

Don't use when

• A simple partial will do