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First, let me say this looks awesome! I’m curious if your considered React.js for the presentation layer (i.e. the js/html5 parts) - on the surface it seems like it would be a good fit - and if so, what you saw as the benefits or drawbacks of it vs the approach you went with.

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We chose to go with a Web Components based interface for compatibility across frameworks, but alot of where we go in the future will be determined by the expertise of the developers we hire to work on it, and the community if there is interest there.

First of all, great work everyone involved! I know first-hand how hard it is to push something like this past compliance ;)

Going with WC is a sound decision since its trivial to wrap it into ember, react, or any other framework-du-jour... especially so since more and more of them are adopting WC patterns and design practices.

I might try to wrap this into react and will see if bosses permit opensourcing it!

I hadn’t realized you were using Web Components. That makes sense. Thank you.

Will defer to texodus on that - he is the front end expert here.

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