# qooxdoo

## the new era of web development

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# Framework Structure

When exploring the framework source, the following overview will give you an idea about the file structure of qooxdoo:

application - sample applications (for end users)

- `demobrowser` - for browsing a large number of demos (online)
- `feedreader` - a sample rich internet application (online)
- `portal` - a showcase for low-level features, i.e. without widgets (online)
- `playground` - an interactive playground without the need to install qooxdoo (online)

component - helper applications (used internally)

- `apiviewer` - API reference (for `generate.py api`) (online)
- `skeleton` - blue print for custom applications (for `create-application.py`)
- `testrunner` - unit testing framework (for `generate.py test / test-source`) (online)

framework - main frontend part of the framework

- `source`
  - `class` - JavaScript classes
  - `resource`
    - `qx` - resources need to be namespaced, here it is `qx`
      - `decoration` - images for the decorations, `Modern` and `Classic`
      - `icon` - icon themes that come with qooxdoo, `Oxygen` and `Tango`
      - `static` - other common resources like `blank.gif`
    - `source` - contains original resources
  - `translation` - language-specific data as `po` files

tool - tool chain of the framework

- `bin` - various scripts are located here, most importantly `generator.py`
- `data` - lots of data to be used by different tools, e.g. for localization, migration, etc.
- `pylib` - Python modules used by the platform-independent tool chain