# Questions Architecture Related Paraview-Web

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/questions-architecture-related-paraview-web/11317
**Category:** Web Support
**Tags:** opengl, python, releases, vtk
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/questions-architecture-related-paraview-web/11317 "2023-02-01T18:07:40Z")
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#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/questions-architecture-related-paraview-web/11317/2 "2023-02-02T16:43:27Z")

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Hi Ans,

Sorry for the confusion and I totally understand where you are coming from but history is against us here.

The confusing part is that we have [paraviewweb](https://github.com/Kitware/paraviewweb) a repository that contains old React widgets with the original infrastructure to talk back to a VTK/ParaView server which also contains many useful guide on VTK/ParaView Web (framework).  
Nowadays, the client side (JS) is managed solely between vtk.js and wslink without the need of the paraviewweb repository/npm package.

And then we have the **VTK/ParaView Web** framework on which [trame](https://kitware.github.io/trame/) is based on. That is more a “marketing” name which is indeed built into VTK and ParaView on their Python side.

Finally the **paraviewweb** repository is technically in maintenance mode with no real update. And therefore contains some old and deprecated information.

ParaView-lite is indeed a ParaView-Web based application.

Nowadays, I will go to [trame](https://kitware.github.io/trame/) for any VTK/ParaView Web kind of solution. But then, if you want to develop your own web front end using Angular, React or else, I will still use trame on the server side and leverage vtk.js + wslink to talk to it.

I hope that clarify things a little better,

And thanks for asking such important question,

Seb

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