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title Introduction
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description Overview of how to contribute to Bee development including code standards and contribution process.

Contribute to Bee Development

Welcome to the Dev area! We love PR's! 🐝

We would would love you to get involved with our Github repo.

Connect with other Bee developers over at the official Discord Server. Sign up and get involved with our buzzing hive of daily dev chat.

  • If you would like to contribute, please read the coding guidelines before you get started.

  • Installation from source is described in the Installation.

  • Contribute to Swarm’s evolution by proposing your own Swarm Improvement Proposal (SWIP) here.

Testing a connection with PingPong protocol

To check if two nodes are connected and to see the round trip time for message exchange between them, get the overlay address from one node, for example local node 2:

curl localhost:1833/addresses

Make sure addresses are configured as in examples above.

And use that address in the API call on another node, for example, local node 1:

curl -X POST localhost:1735/pingpong/d4440baf2d79e481c3c6fd93a2014d2e6fe0386418829439f26d13a8253d04f1

Generating protobuf

To process protocol buffer files and generate the Go code from it two tools are needed:

Makefile rule protobuf can be used to automate protoc-gen-gogofaster installation and code generation:

make protobuf