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# Technical Overview
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## Components
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```mermaid
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graph TD
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subgraph spiff-arena
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Backend
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Frontend
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end
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subgraph Backend
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subgraph SpiffWorkflow lib
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end
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end
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subgraph Frontend
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subgraph bpmn-js-spiffworkflow lib
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end
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end
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Frontend -- uses REST API --> Backend
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Backend -- delegates to --> C
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Backend -- persists to --> DB
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DB[(mysql/postgres)]
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C[Connector Proxy]
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```
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SpiffArena is a system that allows users to build and execute BPMN diagrams.
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It is composed of three applications, [spiffworkflow-frontend](frontend), [spiffworkflow-backend](backend), and, optionally, a [connector proxy](connector_proxy).
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## Source code layout
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From a source code perspective, there are three repositories that may be of interest:
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* [spiff-arena](https://github.com/sartography/spiff-arena) - Includes spiffworkflow-frontend, spiffworkflow-backend, and connector-proxy-demo.
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* [SpiffWorkflow](https://github.com/sartography/SpiffWorkflow) - The core SpiffWorkflow library, 10 years old, Python, awesome, [well-documented](https://spiffworkflow.readthedocs.io/).
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* [bpmn-js-spiffworkflow](https://github.com/sartography/bpmn-js-spiffworkflow) - The frontend library that extends bpmn-js to work with SpiffWorkflow.
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