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Using Appwrite, you can easily manage user authentication with multiple sign-in methods, a database for storing and querying user and team data, storage and file management, image manipulation and cropping, schedule cron tasks and many other features to help you get more results in faster times and with a lot less code.
Appwrite can also integrate really well with your backend. Appwrite can word behind your own proxy facing your internal network, or alongside your own custom backend. You can use Appwrite server SDK to integrate your backend with Appwrite's APIs and webhooks.
Appwrite backend server is designed to run in a container environment. Running your server is as easy as running one command from your terminal. You can either run Appwrite on your localhost using docker-compose or on any other container orchestration tool like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Rancher.
The easiest way to start running your Appwrite server is by running our docker-compose file. Before running the installation command make sure you have [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) installed on your machine:
Once the Docker installation completes, go to http://localhost to access the Appwrite console from your browser. Please notice that on non-linux native hosts, the server might take a few minutes to start after installation completes.
In case your port 80 is already taken, change the port number in the command above. Make sure to set the correct endpoint in your selected SDK, including your new port number.
Getting started with Appwrite is as easy as creating a new project, choosing your platform and integrating its SDK in your code. You can easily get started with your platform of choice by reading one of our Getting Started tutorials.
* [**Account**](https://appwrite.io/docs/account) - Manage current user authentication and account. Track and manage the user sessions, devices, sigin methods, and security audit log.
* [**Database**](https://appwrite.io/docs/database) - Manage database collections and documents. Read, create, update and delete documents and filter lists of documents collections using an advanced filter with graph-like capabilities.
* [**Storage**](https://appwrite.io/docs/storage) - Manage storage files. Read, create, delete and preview files. Manipulate the preview of your files to fit your app perfectly. All files are scanned by ClamAV and stored in a secure and encrypted way.
For the complete API documentation, visit [https://appwrite.io/docs](https://appwrite.io/docs). For more tutorials, news and announcements check out our [blog](https://medium.com/appwrite-io).
Below is a list of currently supported platforms and languages. If you wish to help us add support to your platform of choice, you can go over to our [SDK Generator](https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-generator) project and view our contribution guide.
Join our growing community around the world! Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/appwrite_io), [Facebook Page](https://www.facebook.com/appwrite.io), [Facebook Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/appwrite.developers/) or join our live [Discord server](https://discord.gg/GSeTUeA) for more help, ideas, and discussions.
All code contributions - including those of people having commit access - must go through a pull request and approved by a core developer before being merged. This is to ensure proper review of all the code.
We truly ❤️ pull requests! If you wish to help, you can learn more about how you can contribute to this project in the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).