From 96ded779e27d4cf7c9c8241d846cfd5b738d6b99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sideshowbarker Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 16:18:46 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Docs:=20Recommend=20=E2=80=9CWeb=20Browser=20En?= =?UTF-8?q?gineering=E2=80=9D=20book=20in=20GettingStarted=20guide?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- Documentation/GettingStartedContributing.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/GettingStartedContributing.md b/Documentation/GettingStartedContributing.md index 8ff6e13470a..2fdc40ddf26 100644 --- a/Documentation/GettingStartedContributing.md +++ b/Documentation/GettingStartedContributing.md @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ It is recommended you read the README and FAQs in case they already answer any q The [Discord server](https://discord.gg/nvfjVJ4Svh) is the preferred way to get in contact with the maintainers and community. +## Getting familiar with browser engineering in general +If you’ve never worked on browser-engine code before, and you’re not sure where to begin — one great place to get started is by reading the book [Web Browser Engineering](https://browser.engineering/). It explains how browser engines in general work, and how they’re built — by walking you through real code for actually building all the parts of a basic but complete browser engine (networking code, HTML parsing, layout engine, JavaScript handling, and more), in a couple thousand lines of Python. + ## Building the code Ladybird must be built from source during this pre-alpha stage of development, and currently natively supports Linux and macOS; running it on Windows requires WSL.