Developer Documentation

Entry point for contributors, application developers, maintainers, and technical partners who extend NMS Prime.

Baseline: refreshed against dev-next. When documentation conflicts with the repository, use Documentation Source of Truth.

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Goal	Documentation

Goal	Documentation
Set up development	Developer Quickstart
Understand the platform	Platform Architecture
Create modules, CRUD, and UI	Application Development
Understand domain implementations	Application Internals
Contribute, test, and review	Development Workflow
Maintain packages/deployments	Packaging and Deployment Internals

Technology baseline

PHP 8.3, Laravel 11 with Laravel 10-style layout
Modular monolith with nwidart/laravel-modules
PostgreSQL primary database
Livewire 3 first for new interactive UI; Vue 3/Bootstrap 4 remain in the admin shell
Laravel Mix assets and Reverb realtime
Rocky Linux 9 / RHEL 9 target

Content boundaries

Restricted: page requires manual team/maintainer restrictions
Archived: redirect stub awaiting manual archive
Operator installation belongs under the main Installation section
Secrets, hosts, topology, customer/license data, and destructive runbooks must not be public

Upgrade status

All three documentation refresh chunks are complete. See the Chunk 1–3 inventory pages under Internal Documentation for change and manual-action records.