> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.meridian.study/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Infrastructure Onboarding

> Core Meridian docs to read first for engineering context

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:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Development" icon="wrench" href="/development">
    Daily engineering workflow, local run patterns, and practical debugging guidance.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Testing" icon="flask" href="/testing">
    Test commands, suite organization, and how local verification maps to CI.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Meridian CLI" icon="terminal" href="/meridian-cli">
    Branch, status, setup, and shipping workflows powered by Meridian CLI commands.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deployment" icon="rocket" href="/deployment">
    Release flow, deployment expectations, and operational rollout context.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Best practices

These guides capture implementation conventions for backend and frontend work:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Backend best practices" icon="server" href="/backend/best-practices">
    Service patterns, route conventions, data access, and multi-tenant backend standards.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Frontend best practices" icon="code" href="/frontend/best-practices">
    React architecture, state and API usage conventions, and frontend quality standards.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Important architecture

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

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  <Card title="Multi-tenant identity" icon="users" href="/backend/multi-tenant-identity">
    How users, tenants, and memberships are modeled across schools and subdomains.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authentication overview" icon="shield" href="/backend/auth/overview">
    End-to-end auth model including JWT flows, SSO integration points, and session behavior.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analytics platform" icon="chart-line" href="/backend/analytics-platform">
    Core analytics architecture, event pipelines, and reporting foundations in Meridian.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Suggested read order

If you are onboarding from scratch, read in this sequence:

1. [Development](/development)
2. [Testing](/testing)
3. [Backend best practices](/backend/best-practices)
4. [Frontend best practices](/frontend/best-practices)
5. [Multi-tenant identity](/backend/multi-tenant-identity)
6. [Authentication overview](/backend/auth/overview)
7. [Analytics platform](/backend/analytics-platform)
8. [Meridian CLI](/meridian-cli)
9. [Deployment](/deployment)