Web Development

Building Angular 2 Components on the Fly: A Dialog Box Example

July 19, 2016 Ty Lewis 39 Comments

UPDATE 8-22-16: This post has been updated to use Angular 2 version 2.0.0-rc.5. It was originally written against the API provided by Angular 2 version 2.0.0-rc.4, but as Tom Nurkkala pointed out in the comments, the relevant API from version 2.0.0-rc.4 has been deprecated. UPDATE 9-24-16: A more succinct variation…

Introducing Xtract, a new XML deserialization library for Scala

July 12, 2016 Thayne McCombs 0 Comments

Last summer, our team added support for importing Adobe InDesign files into Lucidpress, a cloud-based publishing app. Specifically, the app now supports IDML files, which consist of XML files packaged up in a .zip file. The process of conversion involves: Parsing the XML from the IDML file into a model…

Angular 2 Best Practices: Change Detector Performance

May 4, 2016 ben 9 Comments

Introduction: Angular 2 and Lucidchart Lucidchart launched in 2010 as one of the very first and most impressive graphical applications on the web. Over the course of several years, it has grown organically to include an incredible array of features. However, for many users it has become unwieldy over time,…

Selenium: 7 Things You Need To Know

July 21, 2015 Jared Yarn 7 Comments

Image source: xkcd Selenium can be one of the most powerful tools in the QA Engineers’ arsenal. Unfortunately, it can be time consuming to write, a nightmare to maintain, and it can produce way too many false negatives. At Lucid Software, that is where our suite was in the middle…

Big content in a little canvas

May 19, 2015 ben 0 Comments

Performant canvas rendering for modern browsers Lucidchart is one of the most complex graphical apps on the web, which means good performance is an absolute must. Getting that performance out of each of our supported browsers has always been a challenge, and we’ve found the best ways to meet that…

The Definitive Guide to Copying and Pasting in JavaScript

December 2, 2014 Richard Shurtz 24 Comments

At Lucid Software, we strive to build desktop quality software that runs in the browser. Until recently, however, we had settled for using our own internal clipboard implementation rather than the system clipboard — limiting copying and pasting with external applications to just plain text. With customers clamoring for the…

Play! 2.3 Template Improvements

August 5, 2014 matthew 0 Comments

My thanks go out to Grant Klopper from The Guardian. Last week, he validated a change I made to the Play! Framework back in December. After upgrading from Play! 2.2 to 2.3, Grant noticed dramatic changes in response times and memory – both for the better. The changes were so awesome that Grant…

Using the @repeat helper in Play!

March 3, 2014 Brian Pugh 1 Comment

Piezo is a system to operate and manage a Quartz Scheduler cluster. It is made up of the Worker and the Admin. One of the main features needed before an official public release of Piezo was the ability to add, edit, and delete jobs from the admin interface. The bulk…