SpaceVim/docs/development.md

---
title:  "Development"
---

# Support SpaceVim

## Development happens in the GitHub repository.

[![Throughput Graph](https://graphs.waffle.io/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/throughput.svg)](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim)

## Report bugs

If you get any issues, please open an issue with the ISSUE_TEMPLATE. It is useful for me to debug for this issue.

## Contribute Layers

1. fork SpaceVim repo
2. add a layer file `autoload/SpaceVim/layers/foo.vim` for `foo` layer.
3. edit layer file, check out the example below:

```vim
function! SpaceVim#layers#foo#plugins() abort
let plugins = []
call add(plugins, ['Shougo/foo.vim', {'option' : 'value'}])
return plugins
endfunction


function! SpaceVim#layers#foo#config() abort
" here you can set some value or mappings
endfunction
```

4. send PR to SpaceVim.

## Build with SpaceVim

SpaceVim provide a lot of public APIs, you can create plugins base on this APIs. also you can add a badge to the README of your plugin.

![](https://img.shields.io/badge/build%20with-SpaceVim-ff69b4.svg)

markdown
```md
[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/build%20with-SpaceVim-ff69b4.svg)](https://spacevim.org)
```

## Changelog

<ul>
    {% for post in site.categories.changelog %}
            <li>
                <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
            </li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>