Using the engine in a standalone app is still not recommended?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi Epic team,

We are quiet interested in using UE4 in a standalone app without extending the editor or creating a game. According to this statement from a developer there will be a standalone template for Visual Studio in the near future. The statement was from June 2014. Are there any news regarding this matter?
Thank you.

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Bump. I’m still waiting for this as well. I’m going to try my hand at it again this weekend.