Develop for GitLab

Contributing to, or integrating with, the GitLab project

🌐 Developer Portal

📝 Extend with GitLab, Contribute to development, Contribute to GitLab

Technologies

IDE

• GitLab Workflow extension for Visual Studio Code (gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension)

SDK

• GitLab Development Kit (GDK)

Rest API

🌐 docs/api/rest

GraphQL API

🌐 docs/api/graphql

📝 docs/development/graphql_guide

Webhooks

🌐 docs/user/project/integrations/webhooks

Project integrations

🌐 docs/user/project/integrations

Remote development

• Web IDE
• Workspaces

Data Seeder

🌐 gitlab-org.gitlab.io/quality/data-seeder (gitlab-org/quality/data-seeder)

📝 docs/development/data_seeder

🎥 GitLab Tech Talk: Planting the seeds of data using the Data Seeder (docs.google.com)

⚗️ gitlab-org/gitlab/ee/db/seeds/data_seeder

Methodology

Software programming principles

Acronym	Meaning
DRY	Don't repeat yourself
KISS	Keep it simple stupid
SOLID	Single responsibility, open–closed, Liskov substitution, interface segregation, dependency inversion
YAGNI	You aren't gonna need it

Tests

🌐 Testing standards and style guidelines

📝 Five Factor Testing