# Developing custom applications

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/developing-custom-applications/31641>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 5, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/developing-custom-applications/31641 "2015-10-05T15:21:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jens\_Grivolla\_UPF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jens_grivolla_upf/32/5119_2.png) [@Jens\_Grivolla\_UPF](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jens_Grivolla_UPF)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/developing-custom-applications/31641/1 "2015-10-05T15:21:57Z")

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Hi, how can I develop a custom Elasticsearch backed web application? Kibana provides great visualizations but seems to only be useful for building dashboards, not more complex applications.

So far we are using Ajax-Solr which provides a great way to develop widgets that share a common query manager, but unfortunately that does not work with Elasticsearch. Is there anything like that available for Elasticsearch? I have googled quite a bit but didn't find anything with that functionality.

Thanks,  
Jens

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/developing-custom-applications/31641/2 "2017-07-05T23:46:38Z")

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