Getting started with Feathers

Welcome to the Feathers guides! This is the place to find all the resources to get started with Feathers.

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The Feathers guide

The Feathers guide walks you through building a messages API from scratch. The quick start gets you up and running with a Feathers application and SQLite database in just a few minutes.

In the following chapters we dive deeper into services, hooks and real-time events by building a complete API that clients can connect to and receive live updates.

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