creating-widgets

To develop custom widgets for StickerNest, you follow a guide covering widget architecture, manifest creation, data binding, theming, event protocols, and registration to extend the platform with bespoke UI components.

The widget architecture uses a composable "Lego Brick Model" with five conceptual layers: Theme, Logic, State, Data Binding, and Pipeline I/O, which collectively define the structure and behavior of custom components.

You define widget properties, data inputs, and outputs by creating a manifest, which acts as the configuration file specifying the capabilities and data binding contracts for your custom component.

Yes, you can build a widget for real-time API data by defining its manifest, configuring the data binding layer to fetch the external data, and implementing the display logic to render the updates.

After developing your UI component, you complete the registration process by defining its manifest properties and configuring the event protocols, ensuring the custom widget integrates with the platform's capabilities.

Yes, theming and event protocols are essential layers of the widget architecture, ensuring your custom component visually integrates with the platform and can properly handle interactive data flows.