This is a follow-up article for From Idea to Sketch.

Framework

The first thing to check was a good framework to start with. We decided to go with Javascript/Typescript as Open Sheet Music Display is done in that language as well. And for easily setting up a demo we chose React which is an open source frontend library developed and maintained by Facebook. We also wanted to have a React demo for our renderer a while back so this was on the wish list anyways.  The graphics and visual eye candy will be done using material-UI and Bootstrap which are also open-source projects dealing with the CSS and layouting. This is a heavy burden taken away from us so we can focus on dealing with the code itself.

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