Automattic/wp-calypso

The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com

# Calypso [](https://renovateapp.com/) Calypso is the new WordPress.com front-end – a beautiful redesign of the WordPress dashboard using a single-page web application, powered by the WordPress.com REST API. Calypso is built for reading, writing, and managing all of your WordPress sites in one place.  It’s built with JavaScript – a very light [node](https://nodejs.org/) plus [express](https://expressjs.com/) server, [React.js](https://reactjs.org/), [Redux](https://redux.js.org/), [wpcom.js](https://wpcomjs.com/), and many other wonderful libraries on the front-end. You can read more about Calypso at [developer.wordpress.com/calypso](https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/). ## Getting Started You can try out the user-side of Calypso on [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com/) (a lot of the logged-in area is Calypso; if in doubt, view source), you can poke around the code here on GitHub, or you can install it and run it locally. The latter is the most fun. 1. Make sure you have [`git`](https://git-scm.com/), [`node`](https://nodejs.org/), and [`yarn`](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) installed. 2. Clone this repository locally. 3. Add `127.0.0.1 calypso.localhost` to your local `hosts` file. 4. Execute `yarn` and then `yarn start` from the root directory of the repository. 5. Open [`calypso.localhost:3000`](http://calypso.localhost:3000/) in your browser. Need more detailed installation instructions? [We have them](./docs/install.md). ## Contributing If Calypso sparks your interest, don’t hesitate to send a pull request, send a suggestion, file a bug, or just ask a question. We promise we’ll be nice. Just don’t forget to