# Advice for starting with Discourse development

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-for-starting-with-discourse-development/320869>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [August 9, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-for-starting-with-discourse-development/320869 "2024-08-09T09:44:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brett\_Peters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brett_peters/32/439102_2.png) [@Brett\_Peters](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brett_Peters)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-for-starting-with-discourse-development/320869/1 "2024-08-09T09:44:41Z")

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Hello to you and please give me a 101 of Discourse for a Dev if you have some spare time.

I am looking at a new project and honestly have no knowlege of thia platform. Vb and XF were my last project for clients but as a sole GNU/Linux user I finally have some tome for my own prpject and Opensource is the only way for me.

Main points of focus would be the custom theme process, hello world add-on example as well as any known helpers

Happy for all replies

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