You Can Be a OpenEMR Developer in 5 Easy Steps

Post date  November 24, 2022
Author  OpenEMR
Written by OpenEMR (@openemr) on Thursday, Nov 24, 2022

Anybody can follow this course to learn how to be a OpenEMR developer.

This course will walk you through all the steps required to set up a OpenEMR development environment, show you how to contribute code improvements/fixes, and demonstrate several real world example bug fixes. Virtual appliances and dockers are leveraged to allow any user on any operating system to quickly learn how to become a OpenEMR developer. All you need to do is to follow the below 5 steps/links/videos:

  1. Create an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 Virtual Appliance with VirtualBox (drive size 40 GB, memory set to 25% of your actual memory, cpu cores set to 25% of your actual cores).
  2. Introduction, Setup and First Pull Request
  3. git Use and Tips
  4. OpenEMR Coding with VS Code and Xdebug
  5. Advanced OpenEMR Coding with VS Code and Xdebug