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# Welcome

Welcome to the [Beaker Browser](https://beakerbrowser.com) documentation!

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## Beginner

* [Creating New Hyperdrives](/docs/beginner/creating-new-hyperdrives.md)
* [Changing a Drive's Title or Thumbnail](/docs/beginner/changing-a-drive-title-or-thumbnail.md)
* [Using the Editor](/docs/beginner/using-the-editor.md)
* [Detaching the Editor](/docs/beginner/detaching-the-editor.md)
* [Creating Files and Folders](/docs/beginner/creating-files-and-folders.md)
* [Importing and Exporting Files](/docs/beginner/importing-and-exporting-files.md)
* [Sharing Hyperdrives](/docs/beginner/sharing-hyperdrives.md)
* [Hosting Hyperdrives](/docs/beginner/hosting-hyperdrives.md)

## Intermediate

* [Your Profile Drive](/docs/intermediate/your-profile-drive.md)
* [Your Address Book](/docs/intermediate/your-address-book.md)
* [Your System Drive](/docs/intermediate/your-system-drive.md)

## Advanced

* [Webterm](/docs/advanced/webterm.md). Beaker's terminal environment.
* [Creating Mounts](/docs/advanced/creating-mounts.md)
* [Editing File Metadata](/docs/advanced/editing-file-metadata.md)
* [Forking Hyperdrives](/docs/advanced/forking-hyperdrives.md)
* [Comparing and Merging Hyperdrives](/docs/advanced/comparing-and-merging-hyperdrives.md)

## APIs

* [beaker.capabilities](/docs/apis/beaker.capabilities.md). Create temporary, revocable URLs which map to hyperdrives.
* [beaker.contacts](/docs/apis/beaker.contacts.md). Read and manage the user's address book.
* [beaker.hyperdrive](/docs/apis/beaker.hyperdrive.md). Methods to read and write Hyperdrive data.
* [beaker.markdown](/docs/apis/beaker.markdown.md). Render Markdown into HTML.
* [beaker.peersockets](/docs/apis/beaker.peersockets.md). Send and receive messages to peers on a hyperdrive.
* [beaker.shell](/docs/apis/beaker.shell.md). Global user interface methods, typically user dialogs.
* [beaker.terminal](/docs/apis/beaker.terminal.md). Register commands which are accessible from [Webterm](/docs/advanced/webterm.md).

## Developers

* [Introduction to Hyperdrive](/docs/developers/introduction-to-hyperdrive.md)
* [Index.json Manifest](/docs/developers/index.json-manifest.md). Information about the Hyperdrive manifest file, `index.json`.
* [Content-Type Negotiation](/docs/developers/content-type-negotiation.md). How `hyper://` handles URLs without extensions.
* [Frontends (.ui folder)](/docs/developers/frontends-.ui-folder.md). A tool to inject HTML output into every browsed resource.
* [.Goto Files](/docs/developers/goto-files.md). Files which act like shortcuts.