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+---
+title: "Source code"
+description: "Source code organization"
+weight: 10
+chapter: false
+livechatnotranslation: true
+---
+
+This page describes the different source code folders and their content.
+
+## build files
+
+Files in the root dir that begins with `build-` are files used to build the plugin.
+See the `package.json` file for more information.
+
+## assets
+
+### assets/images
+
+The `assets/images` folder contains all icons files used by the plugin.
+
+There is also the `assets/images/avatars` folders, which contains avatars used for anonymous chat users.
+These files are used to generate multiple avatars (see the `build-avatars.js` script for more information).
+
+### assets/styles
+
+The `assets/styles` folder contains the livechat plugin SCSS source files.
+
+## build
+
+The `build` folder is not part of the source code, but is used to put some files during the build process.
+
+For example, `build-conversejs.js` use the folder `build/conversejs` to build a customized ConverseJS version.
+
+## client
+
+The `client` folder contains the front-end source code.
+
+Files like `client/common-client-plugin.ts`, `client/videowatch-client-plugin.ts`, ... are the base files that
+are loaded by Peertube for different "scopes" (`common`, `videowatch`, ...).
+Please refer to the [Peertube plugin documentation](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/plugins)
+ for more information.
+
+## conversejs
+
+The `conversejs` folder contains code relative to the use of ConverseJS.
+
+### conversejs/custom
+
+The `conversejs/custom` folder contains some files that are used to customize ConverseJS.
+See the `build-conversejs.sh` script for more information.
+
+## dist
+
+The dist folder is where goes all files created during the build process.
+It is not part of the source code.
+
+## documentation
+
+The folder `documentation` is deprecated.
+We only keep files in this folder to avoid dead links
+(links to these files were shared on many websites or social media posts).
+
+The source code for the new documentation is in `support/documentation/content/en`,
+and is used to generate the documentation web site.
+
+## languages
+
+The folder `languages` contains the languages files.
+These files are [translated using Weblate](/peertube-plugin-livechat/contributing/translate/)).
+
+## prosody-modules
+
+The `prosody-modules` folder contains some modules used by Prosody.
+
+Some of them are "officials" plugins, others are specific to this plugin.
+
+## server
+
+The `server` folder contains the backend source code.
+
+## shared
+
+The `shared` folder contains comme code that will be used both on frontend and backend.
+
+## support/documentation
+
+The `support/documentation` contains the documentation source code.
+
+## vendor
+
+The `vendor` folder is not part of the source code.
+It is used during the build process to download some external source code.