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+# Architecture
+
+The Playground elements have three features that require a somewhat complex architecture:
+
+- Loading files from the main window into a preview iframe without using a server
+- Compiling TypeScript files and resolving bare import specifiers on the fly
+- Loading dependencies from a CDN
+
+To accomplish this, the Playground elements have a somewhat complex set of workers and iframes:
+- A preview iframe
+- A service worker to serve files to the preview iframe
+- A web worker to compile TypeScript files and resolve bare import specifiers
+- A proxy iframe to install and communicate with the service worker from the main page
+
+These workers and iframes are controlled by various Playground elements like `<playground-project>`, `<playground-preview>`, and `<playground-file-editor>`.
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    IDE{{&lt;playground-ide>}}
+    subgraph Project
+    ProjectElement{{&lt;playground-project>}}
+    WebWorker(Build Worker)
+    ProxyIframe[Proxy &lt;iframe>]
+    end
+    subgraph Editors
+    FileEditor1{{&lt;playground-file-editor>}}
+    FileEditor2{{&lt;playground-file-editor>}}
+    end
+    subgraph Preview
+    PreviewElement{{&lt;playground-preview>}}
+    PreviewIframe[Preview &lt;iframe>]
+    end
+    subgraph Network
+    ServiceWorker(Service Worker)
+    CDN([CDN])
+    end
+
+    IDE -...-> Project
+    IDE -.-> Editors
+    IDE -.-> Preview
+    WebWorker -- Built Project Files --> ProjectElement
+    ProjectElement -- Project Files --> WebWorker
+    ProjectElement -- Built Project Files --> ProxyIframe
+    Editors -- Project Files --> ProjectElement
+    ProjectElement --> PreviewElement
+    PreviewElement <--> PreviewIframe
+    ProxyIframe -- Built Project Files --> ServiceWorker
+    ServiceWorker -- All Files --> PreviewIframe
+    CDN -- NPM Dependencies --> ServiceWorker
+    CDN -- TypeScript Types --> WebWorker
+```