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edx-platform Documentation
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Developer documentation for `edx-platform` can be found in the following
locations.

* The `edx-platform docs directory`_ contains some local developer
  documentation.

* The `Developer Documentation Index`_ in Confluence provides additional links
  to developer documentation for this and other projects. The rest of the `Open
  edX Development space`_ in Confluence provides additional documentation.

* User documentation and a more general Developer's Guide can be read on `Open
  edX ReadTheDocs`_.  The source for these guides can be found in the
  `docs.openedx.org`_ repository.

.. _edx-platform docs directory: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/tree/master/docs
.. _Developer Documentation Index: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/overview
.. _Open edX Development space: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/overview
.. _Open edX ReadTheDocs: http://docs.openedx.org/
.. _Hooks Extensions Framework: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/developers/concepts/hooks_extension_framework.html

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    docstrings/docstrings

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    how-tos/index
    references/index
    concepts/index
    extensions/tinymce_plugins

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      * :doc:`how-tos/celery`
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      * :doc:`references/lms_apis`
      * :doc:`references/settings`
      * :doc:`references/featuretoggles`
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      * :doc:`concepts/extension_points`
      * :doc:`concepts/testing/testing`
      * :doc:`concepts/frontend/javascript`
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      * `Hooks Extensions Framework`_
      * :doc:`extensions/tinymce_plugins`
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         Hooks Extensions Framework


Change History
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* April 2025: Documentation moved to docs.openedx.org

* Jun 30, 2023

  * Added API, Feature Toggle and Settings docs.
  * Re-organized how the docs are laid out.

* December, 2020: Added documentation about new protocols for writing celery tasks.

* April, 2019: API and repository-specific documentation builds resumed.

* May, 2017: The local docs directory was cleared out to start fresh.

* January 13, 2015: The "edX Developer's Guide" was moved to
  `edx-documentation`_.

* November 3, 2014: The documentation for several sub-projects were moved into
  `edx-documentation`_.

.. _docs.openedx.org: https://github.com/openedx/docs.openedx.org
.. _edx-documentation: https://github.com/openedx/edx-documentation