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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.

Updating your Moodle plugins or custom developments for Moodle 4.0?

To help you get started we've put together an overview of the most important changes on our Moodle 4.0 developer update page.

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 '''Welcome to the Developer Documentation.'''
-These Developer Docs are for developers who work with Moodle code, plugins and themes.
+These Developer Docs are for developers who work with Moodle code, plugins and themes, or [[Contributing to Moodle|contribute to the Moodle project]] in other ways, such as [[Translation|translation]].
 If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the [[:en:Main_page|User docs]].
+'''Updating your Moodle plugins or custom developments for Moodle 4.0?'''
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+To help you get started we've put together an overview of the most important changes on our [[Moodle 4.0 developer update]] page.
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-<h2>[[Overview]]</h2>
+<div class="card-body">
+<h4 class="card-title">[[Overview]]</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
+* [[Mission]]
+* [[Roadmap]]
 * [[Releases]]
-* [[Roadmap]]
 * [[Process|Development processes]]
+* [[:Category:Processes]]
 * [[Developer meetings]]
-* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=55 Forum discussions]
+* [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=55 General developer forum]
+* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Chat Telegram Moodle Dev Chat room]
 * [http://moodle.org/dev Developer credits/statistics]
-[[Overview|More overview info ...]]
+* [https://moodle.org/ux Moodle User Experience (UX)]
+* [[Moodle_research|Research]]
+* [[Testing]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[Overview|More overview info <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
+</div>
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+<div class="card-body">
-<h2>[[Plugins|Plugin development]]</h2>
+<h4 class="card-title">[[Plugins|Plugin development]]</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
 * [[Activity modules]]
 * [[Blocks]]
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 * [[Repository plugins]]
 * [[Filters]]
-[[Plugins|Full list of plugin types ...]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[Plugins|Full list of plugin types <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
+</div>
 </div>
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-<h2>[[Core APIs]]</h2>
+<h4 class="card-title">[[Core APIs]]</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
 * [[Access API]]
 * [[Data manipulation API]]
+* [[Exporter|Exporter API]]
 * [[File API]]
 * [[Form API]]
-* [[Logging API]]
+* [[Migrating logging calls in plugins|Logging]]
 * [[Navigation API]]
 * [[Page API]]
+* [[Persistent|Persistent API]]
 * [[Output API]]
 * [[String API]]
-[[Core APIs|Full list of core APIs ...]]
+* [[Web service API functions]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[Core APIs|Full list of core APIs <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
+</div>
+</div>
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-<h2>[[Guidelines]]</h2>
+<div class="card-body">
+<h4 class="card-title">Guidelines</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
+* [[Moodle 4.0 developer update]]
 * [[Coding|Coding guidelines]]
 * [[Git_for_developers|Git use]]
-* [[Guidelines for contributed code|Contributing code]]
+* [[Plugin contribution|Contributing plugins]]
 * [[How_to_create_a_patch|Creating patches]]
 * [[PHPUnit|PHPUnit tests]]
-* [[Writing tests]]
+* [[Acceptance testing]]
-[[Guidelines|More concepts and guides...]]
+* [[Writing_PHPUnit_tests|Writing tests with PHPUnit]]
+* [[Testing_instructions_guide|Writing manual testing instructions for an issue]]
+* [[Aria Guidelines]]
+* [[HTML Guidelines]]
+* [[Automatic class loading]]
+* [[Templates]]
+* [[Javascript Modules]]
+* [[AJAX]]
+* [[Communication Between Components]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[:Category:Guidelines|More guidelines <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
+</div>
 </div>
+<div class="card">
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+<div class="card-body">
-<h2>[[:Category:Developer tools|Developer tools]]</h2>
+<h4 class="card-title">[[:Category:Developer tools|Developer tools]]</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
+* [[Linting]]
 * [[Setting up Eclipse]]
 * [[Setting up Netbeans]]
 * [[:Category:Firefox extensions|Firefox extensions]]
-[[:Category:Developer tools|Full list of developer tools ...]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[:Category:Developer tools|Full list of developer tools <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="card">
+<div class="card-body">
+<h4 class="card-title">[[Moodle App]]</h4>
+<p class="card-text">
+* [[Moodle App Overview]]
+* [[Moodle App Development Guide]]
+* [[Moodle App Plugins Development Guide]]
+* [[Moodle App Customization]]
+* [[Moodle App FAQ]]
+</p>
+</div>
+<div class="card-footer">
+: [[:Category:Mobile|Full list of Moodle App documentation <i class="fa fa-sm fa-arrow-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>]]
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-<h2>[[:Category:Project|Projects]]</h2>
-* [[Mobile app]]
-* [[Question Engine 2]]
-* [[Course completion]]
-* [[Student projects]]
-[[:Category:Project|Full list of projects ...]]
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