Scratching My Itch's Itch

After recreating the charts on Before Tax in Excelkits I wanted replace the old charts on Before Tax. For one this would harden Excelkits as a product, but more importantly it require me to add features desirable by content creators (which lucky for me I am).

Before Tax already has a cool dashboard UI that I didn't want to change. Especially since it's monetized with affiliate links placed in strategic locations. I'd need to modify Excelkits widgets to be flexible enough to support the existing visualizations without compromising the monetization of site.

I came up with a pubsub approach that allows users to place a "reporting" widget that would populate the visual widgets anywhere else on that page. Good luck doing that with an iframe. Web Components are pretty cool.