# Architecture redesign - draft

**URL:** <https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/architecture-redesign-draft/61>\
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**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/architecture-redesign-draft/61 "2017-06-12T16:46:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/architecture-redesign-draft/61/1 "2017-06-12T16:46:01Z")

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This post relates discussions about technical choices.

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# About the web UI

With Emmanuel we choose the [Elm language](http://elm-lang.org/) for frontend development. It compiles to JavaScript and is a sort of equivalent of JavaScript+TypeScript+Babel+Webpack+React+Redux toolchain, with better integration and stronger language. It’s community is growing.

We developed the [https://ogptoolbox.org/](https://ogptoolbox.org/) website with Elm.

Overall we experienced better reliability, quicker development, better maintainability and way less bugs in production.  
Here is a book explaining several reasons to choose the Elm language:

> **[why-elm.pdf](https://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/files/why-elm.pdf)**