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The development environment of CKEditor 5 – the best browser-based rich text editor.
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# Introduction
This guide introduces the main pillars of the CKEditor 5 architecture. It is assumed that you have read the { framework/guides/overview Framework's overview} and saw some code in the { framework/guides/quick-start Quick start} guide. This should help you go through the next steps.
## Main components
CKEditor 5 Framework comes with its 3 main pillars:
* **{ framework/guides/architecture/core-editor-architecture Core editor architecture}**
The core editor architecture is implemented by the { api/core `@ckeditor/ckeditor5-core`} package. It consists of some core classes and interfaces that glue everything together.
The main purpose of the core editor architecture is to lay the groundwork for implementing editor features. Therefore, it introduces concepts such as { framework/guides/architecture/core-editor-architecture#plugins plugins} and {@link framework/guides/architecture/core-editor-architecture#commands commands} which simplify and standardize the way of implementing features.
* **{ framework/guides/architecture/editing-engine Editing engine}**
The editing engine is implemented by the { api/engine `@ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine`} package. It is the biggest and by far the most complex piece of the framework, implementing the custom data model, the view layer, conversion mechanisms, the rendering engine responsible for [taming `contentEditable`](https://medium.com/content-uneditable/contenteditable-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-261a38555e9c) and a lot more.
* **{ framework/guides/architecture/ui-library UI library}**
The standard UI library is implemented by the { api/ui `@ckeditor/ckeditor5-ui`} package. It contains a simple MVC implementation whose main goal is to best fit the CKEditor 5 needs. Furthermore, it introduces basic UI components to be used by editor features.