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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 teams data, storage and file management, image manipulation and cropping, scheduled cron tasks and many other features to help you get more results in faster times and with a lot less code.
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.
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.
* [**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.
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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).