# Kooomo Developer's Documentation

# Introduction

Kooomo has a modern framework for frontend developers to build a website on our platform. You won’t need any local webserver or a local copy of the database; a simple text editor, a terminal shell and an internet connection are all that’s required.

Once your merchant account has been fully setup within Kooomo, working on the platform involves the following, and all is explained in more detail further down the document:

• You will start with a test database that will have already been created for you on the Kooomo servers

  • This will contain some sample products and categories

• Download our Skeleton website template

  • Has all the files necessary to build your merchant site

• Download and install an NPM package and CLI tool called kooomator

  • On the first run you can configure kooomator for your website, using API keys we provide
  • You’ll be given a temporary URL where you can view your site

• Run kooomator from your terminal

• You can customise the Skeleton template easily in your editor of choice, adding styles, logos, images, extra pages etc.

• kooomator will watch for any changes in your working directory (i.e. where you’ve saved your Skeleton template) and automatically synchronise them with Kooomo’s remote servers

• You can then reload your site in your browser and see your changes reflected