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To jumpstart our project and avoid having to write everything from scratch, we found a bootstrapped boilerplate project that came with the general look and feel we want for Manifold (minus the functionality of course). CoreUI is a free template for a general use, admin style web app. It comes written using many different options of JavaScript framework libraries, such as React.js, Angular 2+, Vue.js, and Angular. We decided to use React.js to take advantage of React Fiber (React v. 16.0.0), which has high speed and performance. There is no other real reason for why the other options would not have worked, (except Angular 1, which is deprecated). Here is the github repository for CoreUI: https://github.com/coreui/coreui-free-bootstrap-admin-template.
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