VuFind Developer Manual

This page covers development of VuFind 2.x and later; use of earlier versions is no longer recommended.

• Coding Standards - How to conform to VuFind's style.
• Recommended Tools - Suggestions for successful VuFind development.
• Making Pull Requests

• Architecture Notes - Information on VuFind's design and dependencies.
• Cookbook / How-Tos - Step-by-step instructions on various VuFind development tasks.
• Plugins - Information on the types of plug-ins used to extend VuFind functionality.
• Profiling - Information on profiling VuFind's code to improve performance.
• Testing - Notes on testing VuFind.
• Troubleshooting - Notes on troubleshooting and debugging VuFind.
• APIs - APIs that VuFind provides for searching and other functionality.

• Community Call - A regular meeting (free, online and open to all) for discussion, planning and information sharing.
• GitHub pull requests - A place to view and discuss work in progress on new features.
• JIRA - VuFind's issue tracker.
• Slack - Email crhallberg@gmail.com for an invitation to the Slack if you cannot sign up directly.

• Working with MARC - This Code4Lib page offers useful resources for dealing with MARC records.