Architecture
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Front-end
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**Uses**

The part comprehends javascript, react, redux (redux-thunk and rxjs-observable)

**Provides**

- a *plugin system* that allows to develop separated components to add to the application
- ``StandardApp`` and ``StandardStore`` to build your custom application in minutes as a framework
- A *project creation system* to create your own project based on MapStore, without forking

**Is Mapping library Agnostic**

Mapping library is wrapped in react components

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  MapStore front-end

Back-end
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**Uses**

- MapStore back-end (Java / Spring MVC)
- GeoStore (external application merged-in)
- http-proxy (external application merged-in)

**Provides**

- *MapStore Back-end*: Base services to support extensions and data dir system (introduced in 2020.02.00)

- *GeoStore*:
   - Base services for authentication and authorization (resource sharing) and accounting
   - Base support for integration with GeoServer/LDAP

- *http-proxy*: Secured proxy to communicate with external services without CORS.

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  mapstore back-end


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