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title: Developing PocketHost
category: development
description: Learn how to develop PocketHost, a powerful, open-source, nodejs
  application that enables swift multi-tenant platform functions. Ideal for
  public or private use, PocketHost is beginner-friendly with plenty of
  front-end modifications, while offering complex backend setup opportunities
  for seasoned developers.
---

This monorepo contains the entire open source stack that powers pockethost.io. You can use it to run your own private or public multitenant platform.

PocketHost is a pure nodejs application. It used to run in a Docker container, but it was eventually decided that a pure node stack was a better option.

If you are interested in contributing, modifying the frontend is definitely easiest. Modifying the backend takes some extra setup.