Starting a Jira development project

[Johan Smit]

Hi I am an experienced developer and have recently got a project to extend some of Jiras Features.

The Jira environment I am coding for is located on remote servers so I would like to setup a local environment for development and then deploy the code into the target installation after testing and acceptance.

The Target Jira environment is V8.9.1 (I am sure this will be updated during this dev cycle).

The target instance is plain without any enhancements as a starting point.

The work includes adding a tab and more details to the project definition.

Adding new fields and a screen to capture these.

Various interfaced to make Jira ticket info available in other systems.

Some reports based on tickets.

My questions:

Is it possible to install a working environment for development on a standalone PC.

Is there a guide as to what is required? I need the basics working with a single user to execute the development against.

I find a lot of guides online and some are quite conflicting: - is there a big difference targeting a cloud based installation and a self served one like I am targeting?

Your help in pointing me in an appropriate direction is appreciated.

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Johan Smit,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Yes, you can use the Atlassian SDK on a standalone PC. You can find all the information for server development here, Atlassian server developer documentation. You can also find a dedicated community for developers here, The Atlassian Developer Community 

Regarding your question about the difference between Cloud and Data Center, yes it is a big difference. Cloud restricts you on what can be done and is using a different development environment. 

[Johan Smit]

Thanks !