How to: Contributing
We ❤️ pull requests, and we’re continually working hard to make it as easy as possible for developers to contribute. Before beginning development with the Kong Gateway, please familiarize yourself with the following developer resources:

- Community Pledge ([COMMUNITY_PLEDGE.md](COMMUNITY_PLEDGE.md)) for our pledge to interact with you, the open source community.
- Contributor Guide ([CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)) to learn about how to contribute to Kong.
- Development Guide ([DEVELOPER.md](DEVELOPER.md)): Setting up your development environment.
- [CODE_OF_CONDUCT](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) and [COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT)

Use the [Plugin Development Guide](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/plugin-development/) for building new and creative plugins, or browse the online version of Kong's source code documentation in the [Plugin Development Kit (PDK) Reference](https://docs.konghq.com/latest/pdk/). Developers can build plugins in [Lua](https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/plugin-development/), [Go](https://docs.konghq.com/gateway-oss/latest/external-plugins/#developing-go-plugins) or [JavaScript](https://docs.konghq.com/gateway-oss/latest/external-plugins/#developing-javascript-plugins).