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Welcome to the Developer Documentation.

These Developer Docs are for developers who work with Moodle code, plugins and themes, or contribute to the Moodle project in other ways, such as translation.

If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the User docs.

Overview

• Mission
• Roadmap
• Releases
• Development processes
• Category:Processes
• Developer meetings
• General developer forum
• Telegram Moodle Dev Chat room
• Developer credits/statistics
• Moodle User Experience (UX)
• Research
• Testing

More overview info

Plugin development

• Activity modules
• Blocks
• Themes
• Course formats
• Enrolment plugins
• Authentication plugins
• Repository plugins
• Filters

Full list of plugin types

Core APIs

• Access API
• Data manipulation API
• Exporter API
• File API
• Form API
• Logging
• Navigation API
• Page API
• Persistent API
• Output API
• String API
• Web service API functions

Full list of core APIs

Guidelines

• Moodle 4.0 developer update
• Coding guidelines
• Git use
• Contributing plugins
• Creating patches
• PHPUnit tests
• Acceptance testing
• Writing tests with PHPUnit
• Writing manual testing instructions for an issue
• Aria Guidelines
• HTML Guidelines
• Automatic class loading
• Templates
• Javascript Modules
• AJAX
• Communication Between Components

More guidelines

Developer tools

• Linting
• Setting up Eclipse
• Setting up Netbeans
• Firefox extensions

Full list of developer tools

Moodle App

• Moodle App Overview
• Moodle App Development Guide
• Moodle App Plugins Development Guide
• Moodle App Customization
• Moodle App FAQ

Full list of Moodle App documentation