View elements
Magento's primary view elements are its UI Components, containers, and blocks. The following is a brief overview of each of them.
Ui components
Under the vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/ folder, we can find UiComponentInterface and UiComponentFactory. The full set of Ui components is located under the vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/ directory. Magento implements UiComponent through a separate module called Magento_Ui. Thus, the components themselves are located under the vendor/magento/module-ui/Component/ directory.
Components implement UiComponentInterface, which is defined under the vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/UiComponentInterface.php file as follows:
namespace Magento\Framework\View\Element; use Magento\Framework\View\Element\UiComponent\ContextInterface; ...
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