# Contributing to Boost.JSON

## Quickstart

Here is minimal sequence of steps required to prepare development environment:

1. Download Boost
2. Bootstrap Boost
3. Build Boost.JSON tests, benchmarks and examples

```
git clone --recurse-submodules --jobs 8 https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git
cd boost
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 headers
cd libs/json
../../b2 test
../../b2 bench
../../b2 example
```