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# Introduction to the Alfresco Application Development Framework
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The Alfresco Application Development Framework (ADF) is based on the [Angular framework](https://angular.io/).
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ADF is provided by Alfresco to make it easy to build custom web applications to manage and view content in the [Alfresco Platform Repository](https://docs.alfresco.com/5.2/concepts/content-repo-about.html).
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As you probably know, there is a general user interface called [Alfresco Share](https://docs.alfresco.com/5.2/concepts/gs-intro.html) available out-of-the-box.
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Share is usually used as a quick way of getting started with content management in Alfresco. It gives you access to pretty much all
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the features provided by the ACS system and a lot of customers customize it for their specific domain.
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However, there are use cases that Share does not fit very well, such as:
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- Feature-based clients, exposing functionality to perform a specific task(s)
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- Role-based clients, exposing functionality based on role
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- Clients where the UI layout and style differs significantly from the Share layout and styling
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- [Mashup clients](http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/mash-up)
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This is where ADF comes into play. You can use it to create exactly the user interface
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(i.e. web client) that you require.
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The framework consists of several libraries that can be used to form a customized content management application. The available libraries are:
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- [Core](lib/core/README.md)
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- [Content Services](lib/content-services/README.md)
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- [Process Services](lib/process-services/README.md)
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- [Insights](lib/insights/README.md)
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You can browse documentation for all the components at the
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[ADF Component Catalog](https://alfresco.github.io/adf-component-catalog/).
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An overview of the architecture is shown below:
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<p align="center">
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<img title="alfresco-angular-components-architecture" alt='alfresco' src='assets/alfresco-app-dev-framework-architecture.png'></img>
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</p>
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Here we can also see that there is an Alfresco JavaScript framework in use that wraps the Alfresco REST API, to make things easier for the client developer.
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