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authorJason Robinson <jasonr@matrix.org>2021-01-23 21:41:35 +0200
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 Synapse Development
 ===================
 
-Join our developer community on Matrix: [#synapse-dev:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org)
+Join our developer community on Matrix: `#synapse-dev:matrix.org <https://matrix.to/#/#synapse-dev:matrix.org>`_
 
 Before setting up a development environment for synapse, make sure you have the
 system dependencies (such as the python header files) installed - see
@@ -280,6 +280,27 @@ differ)::
 
     PASSED (skips=15, successes=1322)
 
+We recommend using the demo which starts 3 federated instances running on ports `8080` - `8082`
+
+    ./demo/start.sh
+
+(to stop, you can use `./demo/stop.sh`)
+
+If you just want to start a single instance of the app and run it directly::
+
+    # Create the homeserver.yaml config once
+    python -m synapse.app.homeserver \
+      --server-name my.domain.name \
+      --config-path homeserver.yaml \
+      --generate-config \
+      --report-stats=[yes|no]
+
+    # Start the app
+    python -m synapse.app.homeserver --config-path homeserver.yaml
+
+
+
+
 Running the Integration Tests
 =============================