> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://formbricks.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> How Formbricks is built, and the standards its code is held to.

This section is for people working on the Formbricks codebase itself. It documents **how the platform is put together** and **the conventions its code follows** — not how to use Formbricks, which is what the rest of these docs are for.

## What is here

> [card] [Technical Handbook](https://formbricks.com/docs/development/technical-handbook/overview.md)
>
> The architecture: how the Next.js app, the API gateway, the MCP server and the database fit together, and how tenants are kept apart.

> [card] [Standards](https://formbricks.com/docs/development/standards/organization/file-and-directory-organization.md)
>
> How the repository is organised, how code is formatted and named, how errors are handled, and what a review and a test are expected to cover.

## Running Formbricks locally

Setup instructions live with the code, where they stay in step with it:

* [README](https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks#readme) — prerequisites and the steps to get an instance running.
* [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) — how to raise an issue, and what a good pull request looks like.

If something goes wrong, [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/discussions) is the fastest way to get help from people who have hit the same thing.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Looking to **run** Formbricks rather than develop it? See [Self-hosting](https://formbricks.com/docs/self-hosting/overview.md).
> Building **against** it? See the [API v2 reference](https://formbricks.com/docs/api-v2-reference/introduction.md) and the
> [SDK guides](https://formbricks.com/docs/surveys/website-app-surveys/framework-guides.md).


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