Howto:Coding a simple Nasal Framework

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Objective

Illustrate the basic thought process required to come up with Nasal/Canvas code that is sufficiently generic to support the following requirements

• support multiple independent instances (e.g. PFDs or NDs)
• be aircraft/use-case agnostic (e.g. work without hard-coded properties)
• configurable without touching back-end code (e.g. via configuration hashes)
• modular (use separate files for splitting things up)

We'll be using the PFD/ND code as an example here, and won't be using any complicated techniques.