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This page collects the most important documentation to onboard quickly to Meridian infrastructure and development patterns.

Development guides

These docs explain local setup, daily workflows, testing, CLI usage, and deployment flow:

Development

Daily engineering workflow, local run patterns, and practical debugging guidance.

Testing

Test commands, suite organization, and how local verification maps to CI.

Meridian CLI

Branch, status, setup, and shipping workflows powered by Meridian CLI commands.

Deployment

Release flow, deployment expectations, and operational rollout context.

Best practices

These guides capture implementation conventions for backend and frontend work:

Backend best practices

Service patterns, route conventions, data access, and multi-tenant backend standards.

Frontend best practices

React architecture, state and API usage conventions, and frontend quality standards.

Important architecture

These pages are key for understanding identity, authentication, and analytics design in Meridian:

Multi-tenant identity

How users, tenants, and memberships are modeled across schools and subdomains.

Authentication overview

End-to-end auth model including JWT flows, SSO integration points, and session behavior.

Analytics platform

Core analytics architecture, event pipelines, and reporting foundations in Meridian.

Suggested read order

If you are onboarding from scratch, read in this sequence:
  1. Development
  2. Testing
  3. Backend best practices
  4. Frontend best practices
  5. Multi-tenant identity
  6. Authentication overview
  7. Analytics platform
  8. Meridian CLI
  9. Deployment