Development Manual

The OPNsense® project invites developers to start developing with OPNsense: “For your own purpose or even better to join us in creating the best FreeBSD based open source firewall available!” The development workflow & build process has been redesigned to make it more straightforward and easy for developers to build OPNsense.

Being able to get the sources and build it yourself is one of the key factors of open source software. One reason that for starting the OPNsense project is that the team believes sources and build tools should be freely available and as easy to use as possible.

• Development Workflow
• Coding Guidelines
  • Basics and Future
  • PSR-1 Basic Coding Standard
  • PSR-2 Coding Style Guide
  • Python PEPs
• Architecture
• Backend
  • Bootup / autorun options
  • Using configd
  • Using legacy plugins
  • Using Templates
• Frontend
  • Creating Models
  • Routing
  • Using controllers and views
• Components
  • Menu System
  • Access Control List
• Examples
  • Hello world module & plugin
• How to’s
  • Use the API

Sources

Just looking for the sources? See: OPNsense repository