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Building an App with Slingshot
Section titled “Building an App with Slingshot”Start from the docs and examples. Don’t read framework internals.
Quick Start Define an entity, start the server, curl your API. Three steps.
Core Features Data, events, realtime, auth, permissions, jobs — pick what you need.
Authoring Model How app roots, packages, and entities fit together.
Examples SaaS, forum, chat, content platform, game engine — find your use case.
Recommended read order
Section titled “Recommended read order”- Quick Start — build something in 3 steps
- Composing an App — the canonical authoring journey: packages, routes, contracts, events, plugins
- Core Features — add capabilities one at a time as your app grows
- Authoring Model — the conceptual map of every authoring layer
- Examples — study complete apps
- Guides — ship to production
Jump to your use case
Section titled “Jump to your use case”| You want to build… | Start here |
|---|---|
| API with auth | Auth Setup |
| Multi-tenant SaaS | SaaS Foundations |
| Forum or community | Forum App |
| Collaboration workspace | Collaboration Workspace |
| Content platform with SSR | Content Platform |
| Game backend | Game Engine |
| Config-driven domain | Config-Driven Domain |
Contributing to Slingshot
Section titled “Contributing to Slingshot”If you are modifying the Slingshot framework itself — packages, plugins, docs tooling, or generated reference — see the Framework Contributor Flow.