Runtime Model
Building Systems Alone
How working as a solo internal engineer reshaped my architectural thinking.
Cotomy Development Backstory
Development stories and architectural turning points behind Cotomy.
Runtime Model
Early Architecture Attempts
The pragmatic early design that predated Cotomy: PHP routing, template friction, and the first DOM-wrapper impulse.
Runtime Model
The First DOM Wrapper and Scoped CSS
How ElementWrap emerged from jQuery migration and CSS collapse, and how scoped styling reshaped my UI architecture.
Runtime Model
API Standardization and the Birth of Form Architecture
How unstructured API calls became the next bottleneck, and how form classification reshaped my TypeScript foundation.
Runtime Model
Page Representation and the Birth of a Controller Structure
How I struggled to bind logic to individual pages, and how controller classes gradually gave my TypeScript library framework-like properties.
Core Principle
The CotomyElement Constructor Is the Core
Why the constructor overloads capture my real design intent: locality, scoped CSS, and practical DOM ownership.
Core Principle
Dynamic HTML Boundaries in CotomyElement
How I handled dynamic HTML input in CotomyElement, where parsing breaks, and why the boundaries became strict.
Core Principle
Reaching Closures to Remove Event Handlers Later
The problem of removing event handlers when closures change function identity, and the pragmatic registry solution inside Cotomy.
Core Principle
The Birth of the Page Controller
Why page-level control became necessary and how the first PageController design appeared.
