ZIm/docs/src/developing_zed__local_collaboration.md
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# Local Collaboration
First, make sure you've installed Zed's [backend dependencies](./developing_zed__building_zed.md#backend-dependencies).
## Database setup
Before you can run the `collab` server locally, you'll need to set up a `zed` Postgres database.
```
script/bootstrap
```
This script will set up the `zed` Postgres database, and populate it with some users. It requires internet access, because it fetches some users from the GitHub API.
The script will create several *admin* users, who you'll sign in as by default when developing locally. The GitHub logins for these default admin users are specified in this file:
```
cat crates/collab/.admins.default.json
```
To use a different set of admin users, you can create a file called `.admins.json` in the same directory:
```
cat > crates/collab/.admins.json <<JSON
[
"your-github-login",
"another-github-login"
]
JSON
```
## Testing collaborative features locally
In one terminal, run Zed's collaboration server and the `livekit` dev server:
```
foreman start
```
In a second terminal, run two or more instances of Zed.
```
script/zed-local -2
```
This script starts one to four instances of Zed, depending on the `-2`, `-3` or `-4` flags. Each instance will be connected to the local `collab` server, signed in as a different user from `.admins.json` or `.admins.default.json`.