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title: Building from source
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# Building from source
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If you have any idea for an improvement or found a bug do not hesitate to open an issue.
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And if you have time clone [the grafana repository](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) and submit a pull request and help me make Grafana
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the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!
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Grafana uses nodejs and grunt as a build system for javascript, less compilation, and unit tests.
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## Get started
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- Install nodejs.
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- npm install -g grunt-cli
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- npm install (in grafana repository root)
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### run development server
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- grunt server
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### run less & jshint checks
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- grunt
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### run unit tests
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- grunt test
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### create optimized, minified build
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- grunt build (or grunt release to get zip/tar files)
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## Create a pull requests
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Before or after your create a pull requests, sign the [contributor license aggrement](/docs/contributing/cla.html).
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