# Steem Developer Portal

#### Welcome to the Hive Developer Portal!

This site is designed to aid those interested in developing applications on the Steem blockchain.

If you don’t know about Steem yet, visit steem.com.

The code for this site is on github. If you’d like to see a specific improvement you can either submit a pull request or file an issue. Please follow our contribution guidelines

#### Site Resources

The quickstart section has some general information on working with nodes, and testnets.

Our tutorials section will take you through the basics of interacting with Steem apis in Javascript, Python, and Ruby.

More detailed API specs are available in the APPBASE API section. Those apis are under development, so please read notes at the top of each section.

You can find community resources, libraries, and more ‘human’ ways to get help and education in the communities section.

The glossary has Steem specific terms that will help you understand documentation, whitepapers, and the speech of other steemians.