Development Guide

👋 Welcome! Getting started with Clutch development is easy. Clutch has a number of extension points that make it easy to customize for a new use case without forks or rewrites.

Familiarizing yourself with concepts in the Architecture Reference is recommended prior to starting development.

Guides

Basic

Custom Gateway

Create a customized instance of Clutch in your own repository with private or custom extensions.

Feature Development

See how to take a feature from idea to implementation across the frontend and backend.

In-depth

API Definitions

Define API endpoints and objects plus backend config in Protobuf and generate the corresponding backend code.

Frontend

Develop new features and workflows using React that users can interact with from the web UI.

Backend

Integrate with other systems, execute tasks, and store data.

Recommended Editors

The Clutch team recommends Visual Studio Code for frontend development and Goland for backend development.

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