Providing an improved web user interface framework for building web applications

A computer implemented method for displaying in a web browser a presentation of a server-hosted web application with an embedded component, the method comprising:

• causing a user interface providing a presentation of a web application hosted by an application server to be provided at a computing device in communication with the application server, the user interface being generated based on an HTML container, the user interface including one or more components of the web application hosted by the application server;
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• causing an embedded component generated based on the HTML container to be provided in the user interface, the embedded component hosted by a component server in communication with the computing device, the component server being different from the application server.

A computer program product comprising computer-readable program code to be executed by one or more processors when retrieved from a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program code including instructions configured to cause:

• causing a user interface providing a presentation of a web application hosted by an application server to be provided at a computing device in communication with the application server, the user interface being generated based on an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) container, the user interface including one or more components of the web application hosted by the application server;
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• causing an embedded component generated based on the HTML container to be provided in the user interface, the embedded component hosted by a component server in communication with the computing device, the component server being different from the application server.