Providing an improved web user interface framework for building web applications

A system configured to store client-side information for identifying and requesting server-side actions, the system comprising:

• a server configured to host a web application;
• and
• a client machine comprising:
• a display configured to display a user interface for the web application, a storage medium, and one or more processors operable to:
• maintain a local cache storing client-side information on the storage medium, the local cache maintained according to a local caching policy, the client-side information comprising responses received from the server in relation to performance of server-side actions based on requests previously communicated to the server, the client-side information further comprising an identifier of each server-side action associated with a respective response, the responses comprising a first response for a first server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server and a second response for a second server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server;
• receive, via a first component of the user interface, a first request to perform the first server-side action by the server;
• receive, via a second component of the user interface, a second request to perform the second server-side action by the server;
• determine, based on the local caching policy, that the first and second requests should be communicated to the server;
• and
• cause the first and second requests to be communicated to the server.

A computer implemented method for storing client-side information for identifying and requesting server-side actions, the method comprising:

• maintaining a local cache storing client-side information on the storage medium, the local cache maintained according to a local caching policy, the client-side information comprising responses received from the server in relation to performance of server-side actions based on requests previously communicated to the server, the client-side information further comprising an identifier of each server-side action associated with a respective response, the responses comprising a first response for a first server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server and a second response for a second server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server;
• receiving, via a first component of the user interface, a first request to perform the first server-side action by the server;
• receiving, via a second component of the user interface, a second request to perform the second server-side action by the server;
• determining, based on the local caching policy, that the first and second requests should be communicated to the server;
• and
• causing the first and second requests to be communicated to the 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:

• maintaining a local cache storing client-side information on the storage medium, the local cache maintained according to a local caching policy, the client-side information comprising responses received from the server in relation to performance of server-side actions based on requests previously communicated to the server, the client-side information further comprising an identifier of each server-side action associated with a respective response, the responses comprising a first response for a first server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server and a second response for a second server-side action having been caused to be performed by the server;
• receiving, via a first component of the user interface, a first request to perform the first server-side action by the server;
• receiving, via a second component of the user interface, a second request to perform the second server-side action by the server;
• determining, based on the local caching policy, that the first and second requests should be communicated to the server;
• and
• causing the first and second requests to be communicated to the server.