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+# Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome, including bug reports, implementing features or writing documentation.
+
+## Dev Environment Setup
+
+The recommended way is to use docker compose:
+
+1. In the `docker-compose.yml` replace the `image: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:latest` for `build: "."`
+
+The development workflow is:
+
+1. Make changes in the source code.
+2. Build the image and run a container.
+    ```bash
+    docker compose build
+    ```
+    ```bash
+    docker compose up
+    ```
+3. Test the changes.
+4. Bring the container down.
+    ```bash
+    docker compose down
+    ```
+4. Repeat as many times as needed.
+
+## Building the documentation
+
+Follow the instructions in the docs [readme page](./src/docs/README.md).
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 ```bash
 swag init
-```
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+```
+
+Then run the app in `/src`
+
+```bash
+go run main.go
+```
+
+Or with docker compose in the root of the repository
+```bash
+docker compose up
+```
+
+Then navigate to the following address to view the docs
+
+http://127.0.0.1:8080/swagger/index.html
+
+On docker you'll get a Network error, replace the IP for the docker internal IP in the error, e.g:
+
+http://172.18.0.2:8080/swagger/index.html
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