grafana/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md

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Building from source

If you have any idea for an improvement or found a bug do not hesitate to open an issue. And if you have time clone the grafana repository and submit a pull request and help me make Grafana the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!

Grafana uses nodejs and grunt as a build system for javascript, less compilation, and unit tests.

Get started

• Install nodejs.
• npm install -g grunt-cli
• npm install (in grafana repository root)

run development server

• grunt server

run less & jshint checks

• grunt

run unit tests

• grunt test

create optimized, minified build

• grunt build (or grunt release to get zip/tar files)

Create a pull requests

Before or after your create a pull requests, sign the contributor license aggrement.