Use postMessage to send messages between preview and element windows #1704
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window.postMessage
is a safe and cross origin safe way to send serialized data between browser windows. In our case the preview iframe and the editing browser window.That way we have a unified way to trigger events on both sides and truly separate concerns. Also this provides us a way to send more data in the future, aka. live updates of content.