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-## Contributing
-
-Contributions to labrinth are welcome! However, we do have a couple dependencies that you need to get up and running. 
-
-We reccomend using [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) for setting up your dev enviroment. If you have Docker and docker-compose installed, you may run:
-```sh
-docker-compose up
-```
-which will deploy a Meilisearch container on port 7700, a PostgreSQL container on port 5432 and a pgAdmin web UI on port 8070.
-When prompted to input a server password in pgAdmin, simply enter nothing into the password field.
-
-You will have to set up the database now. To do so, install the sqlx cli:
-```sh
-cargo install --git https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sqlx-cli --no-default-features --features postgres
-```
-then, run the following commands to create the database and install schemas:
-```sh
-sqlx database create
-sqlx migrate run
-```
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 ## Modrinth's laboratory for its backend service & API!
 
-Documentation coming soon™.
+For contributing information, please see the labrinth section of the [Modrinth contributing guide](https://docs.modrinth.com/docs/details/contributing/#labrinth-backend-and-api). For documentation on the API itself, see the [API Spec](https://docs.modrinth.com/api-spec/).