US Patent 12079626 Methods and systems for creating applications using scene trees

Systems and method for creating applications are disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a visual editing environment configured to receive code that defines an application using a declarative language from one or more developers, wherein the code includes a scene tree description; a code execution engine configured to operate on the code created in the visual editing environment to create a scene tree that defines properties and behaviours of the application based on the scene tree description; and a publisher configured to publish the application, whereby instances of the application may be downloaded to respective client devices, wherein each instance of the application includes a respective instantiation of the scene tree, wherein the scene tree description is editable via the visual editing environment, such that edits to the scene tree description are updated to the respective instantiations of the scene tree at runtime.