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Architecture

This document specifies what are the components of the application.

Components​

The application is made of six components:

  1. "shared": a compound component which exposes modules used across different parts of the application:
    • a "core" TypeScript module which is injected as a dependency to the "back-end", "front-end" and "electron" components ;
    • a "back-end" Node.js module which is injected as a dependency to both the "back-end" and "electron" components ;
    • a "front-end" TypeScript module which is injected as a dependency to both the "front-end" and "electron" components ;
    • a "specification-factory" module containing TypeSpec grammar specifications and code emitters for ViewKit, React views, Python and TypeScript SDK data models, and JSON Schemas ;
  2. "back-end": the Node.js HTTP server back-end application, capable of running extensions ;
  3. "extensions/sdk": the Python and TypeScript SDKs ;
  4. "extensions/instances": the built-in extensions for the back-end ;
  5. "front-end": the React.js web front-end application ;
  6. "electron": the wrapping Electron application which embeds the "back-end" and "front-end" previous components.