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Developer Guide

This guide contains detailed information on how to work on Metabase codebase.

Contributing

• How to contribute back to the Metabase project

Setup and build

• How to set up a development environment
• How to run a development branch of Metabase using Docker
• How to compile your own copy of Metabase

Working with the code

• How to work with the frontend code
• How to add support in Metabase for other languages
• Working with Clojure
• Annotated Clojure source code

Testing

• How to write and run end-to-end tests
• How to use visual tests

API documentation

• Autogenerated API docs
• API changelog
• Working with the Metabase API
• Driver Interface Changelog
• MBQL Library Changelog

Database drivers

• Partner and community drivers
• Guide to writing a driver

Metabase documentation

• Developing Metabase documentation

Releases

• Metabase release versioning