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Jun 3, 2026

The dashboard designer: drag-and-drop that writes JSON metadata, not Angular code

Most low-code dashboards are exported to a proprietary binary or compiled to a per-tenant Angular bundle. WUIC ships an in-browser designer (palette + canvas + property panel) that writes a single JSON column (dom_board.boardcontent) plus per-board CSS sheets (dom_board_sheet) and the runtime renders it without recompile. This post explains the designer UX, the palette of components, the CSS attachment story, and the one trade-off we made about Angular markup inside the JSON.

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