Background Users have been using Lucidchart for a long time to make their diagrams, since 2010 and IE6. And for nearly that long, Lucid has used Google’s Closure Compiler to manage its increasingly sophisticated code base. Closure Compiler is a typechecker and minifier that uses JSDoc annotations in comments to…
Web Development
At Lucid, we have a service-oriented architecture. One of these services is a font service that is responsible for serving font data based on family and unicode range and checking permissions for user-uploaded fonts. We didn’t expect the font service to have particularly high load1 (load is the average number…
Lucidpress is a large application—hundreds of thousands of lines of handwritten JavaScript. After seeing the success Lucidchart had in modernizing its UI with Angular, we wanted to follow suit, but we didn’t have the resources to do a wholesale rewrite all at once. We wanted to write some new Angular…
The Angular 2 change detection system is somewhat of a black box: you update some variables in the model, and the components update automatically. Thoughtram, Victor Savkin, and other websites have written some excellent posts explaining change detection (which we reference in this post). Often, these posts present a series…
Here at Lucid Software we use a hypermedia-driven application architecture. This means that a client that uses our micro-services simply has to hard-code a “bootstrap” resource URI, and we can re-jigger our endpoints whenever we choose. This approach gives us flexibility on the back-end while maintaining perfect compatibility with our…