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Introduction to Play

Play is a UI toolkit for building performant, high-quality web apps using technologies — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — with integrations for popular frameworks like Angular, React.

Get started building by installing Play or following our First App Tutorial to learn the main concepts.

Overview

Play focuses on the frontend UX and UI interaction of an app — UI controls, interactions, gestures, animations. It's easy to learn, and integrates with other libraries or frameworks, such as Angular, React. If you'd like to learn more about Play before diving in, we created a video to walk you through the basics.

A focus on performance

Play is built to perform and behave great on the latest browsers with best practices.

Clean, simple, and functional design

Play is designed to work and display beautifully on all current browsers. With ready-made components, typography, and a gorgeous (yet extensible) base theme that adapts to each platform, you'll be building in style.