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title: Local Development
description: Learn how to set up Documenso for local development.
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## Overview

There are multiple ways of setting up Documenso for local development. At the moment of writing this documentation, there are 3 ways of running Documenso locally:

- [Using the developer quickstart with Docker](/docs/developers/local-development/quickstart)
- [Manually setting up the development environment](/docs/developers/local-development/manual)
- [Using Gitpod](/docs/developers/local-development/gitpod)

Pick the one that fits your needs the best.

## Tech Stack

- [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) - Language
- [React Router v7](https://reactrouter.com/) - Framework
- [Hono](https://hono.dev/) - Server
- [Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/) - ORM
- [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) - CSS
- [shadcn/ui](https://ui.shadcn.com/) + [Radix UI](https://www.radix-ui.com/) - Component Library
- [react-email](https://react.email/) - Email Templates
- [Lingui](https://lingui.dev/) - Internationalization
- [tRPC](https://trpc.io/) - API
- [@libpdf/core](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@libpdf/core) - PDF Signing and Manipulation
- [pdf.js](https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/) - Viewing PDFs
- [Stripe](https://stripe.com/) - Payments

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    <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/documenso/documenso" alt="Github Stars" />
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## See Also

- [Contributing](/docs/developers/contributing) - Learn how to contribute to Documenso
- [Self-Hosting](/docs/self-hosting) - Deploy your own instance