Engineering Onboarding

Welcome to Frappe!

To get started with development, you must get familiar with the Frappe Framework. Most of the products at Frappe are based on the Frappe Framework. It is a full-stack, batteries-included web framework in Python.

If you're new to web development, this may not be an easy journey. The learning curve for the Frappe Framework has been very steep, and we're always in pursuit of changing this. You can see our efforts to do so, via the Frappe Documentation at frappeframework.com or through the resources and tools available for a Frappe setup. You may use Frappe Docker for this, but you should ideally try out manual setups to understand the stack instead of using the docker "shortcut".

Recommended Onboarding Steps:

Setup a development environment using the Bench CLI. You can follow the official setup instructions.
(Optional) Download VSCode and install the Frappe Intellisense extension.
Go through the written Tutorial or the Video Tutorial or both 🤷🏻‍♂️.
Make a basic Accounting App with a double-entry accounting system OR warehouse management app.

Accounting App

Use Case

Jethalal starts his business "Gada Electronics" with 100k, buys various electronic products and stocks them in his godowns. Sells them while keeping some profit. He does so while maintaining customer credits as well as settling his debts.

Your application should be able to track products, account balances, profits, losses and the taxes he has to pay while transacting. Probably something that looks better than this

If you are totally new to "Accounting" then watching recording of old brief of the app might help.

Features

DocTypes
- Item
- Account (tree)
- Ledger Entry
- Journal Entry (ledger posting)
- Sales / Purchase Invoice (ledger posting)
Reports
- Chart of accounts
- Profit and Loss
- Balance Sheet
Tests
- Ledger Posting
- Totals
Invoice print format
Website
- Home page
- Catalog
- Simple Web Shop (add items to cart and make invoice)

Warehouse Management App

Documented on gameplan - Warehouse Management app for onboarding

Goals

The goal of this "exercise" is to provoke thought and empower you with everything necessary to get your first feature PR merged to Frappe or ERPNext.

Also to answer this simple question: "Is DocType a DocType?"