Dynamic generation of user interface components based on hierarchical component factories

A computing device comprising:

• a plurality of component factories, with each component factory associated with one of a plurality of user interface (UI) components;
• a registration unit to register the plurality of UI components associated with an application with a common registry using associated metadata and configuration information and to map each UI component to one of the component factories of an associated parent UI component based on the associated metadata;
• a receiving unit to receive a request to render at least a portion of the application on a UI;
• a component generation unit to generate, at runtime, at least one UI component corresponding to the request at each level in a hierarchy using the component factory associated with the at least one UI component and the common registry;
• and
• a rendering unit to render the at least one generated UI component on the UI.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to:

• provide a component factory corresponding to each of a plurality of user interface (UI) components;
• register the plurality of UI components associated with an application with a common registry using associated metadata and configuration information and map each UI component to a component factory of an associated parent UI component based on the associated metadata;
• receive a request to render at least a portion of the application on a UI;
• generate, at runtime, at least one UI component corresponding to the request at each level in a hierarchy using the component factory associated with the at least one UI component and the common registry;
• and
• render the at least one generated UI component on the UI.