# Welcome to the contributing guide for PeerTube
-Interesting in contributing? Awesome :)
+Interesting in contributing? Awesome!
**Quick Links:**
* [Give your feedback](#give-your-feedback)
- * [Develop on the Server side](#develop-on-the-server-side)
- * [Develop on the Client side](#develop-on-the-client-side)
* [Write documentation](#write-documentation)
+ * [Develop](#develop)
## Give your feedback
-Even if you are not a developer, or you do not want to develop on PeerTube you can give a feedback on potential bugs, features that you are interested in, user interace, design, decentralized architecture...
+You don't need to know how to code to start contributing to PeerTube! Other
+contributions are very valuable too, among which: you can test the software and
+report bugs, you can give feedback on potential bugs, features that you are
+interested in, user interface, design, decentralized architecture...
-## Develop on the Server side
+## Write documentation
-The server is a web server developed with [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org)/[Express](http://expressjs.com).
+You can help to write the documentation of the REST API, code, architecture,
+demonstrations...
-Newcommer? You can find a documentation of the server code/architecture [here](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/server/code.md).
+## Develop
-Do not hesitate to talk about the functionnality you want to develop by creating an issue :)
+Don't hesitate to talk about features you want to develop by creating an issue
+before you start working on them :).
+### Prerequisites
-## Develop on the Client side
+First, make sure that you have followed
+[the steps](/support/doc/dependencies.md)
+to install the dependencies.
-The client is a web application developed with [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)/[Angular2](https://angular.io/)
+Then clone the sources and install node modules:
-Newcommer? You can find a documentation of the server code/architecture [here](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/master/support/doc/client/code.md).
+```bash
+$ git clone -b master https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
+$ cd PeerTube
+$ yarn install --pure-lockfile
+```
+Then, create a postgres database and user with the values set in the
+`config/default.yaml` file. For instance, if you do not change the values
+there, the following commands would create a new database called `peertube_dev`
+and a postgres user called `peertube` with password `peertube`:
-## Write documentation
+```bash
+# sudo -u postgres createuser -P peertube
+Enter password for new role: peertube
+# sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube peertube_dev
+```
+
+In dev mode, administrator username is **root** and password is **test**.
+
+### Server side
+
+You can find a documentation of the server code/architecture [here](/support/doc/development/server/code.md).
+
+To develop on the server-side:
+
+```bash
+$ npm run dev:server
+```
+
+Then, the server will listen on `localhost:9000`. When server source files
+change, these are automatically recompiled and the server will automatically
+restart. Server is in `TEST` mode so it will run requests between instances more quickly.
+
+### Client side
+
+You can find a documentation of the server code/architecture
+[here](/support/doc/development/client/code.md).
+
+
+To develop on the client side:
+
+```bash
+$ npm run dev:client
+```
+
+The API will listen on `localhost:9000` and the frontend on `localhost:3000`.
+Client files are automatically compiled on change, and the web browser will
+reload them automatically thanks to hot module replacement.
+
+### Test federation
+
+This will run 3 nodes:
+
+```bash
+$ npm run clean:server:test
+$ npm run play
+```
-You can help to write the documentation of the REST API, code, architecture, demonstrations...
+Then you will get access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}`
+with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password.
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