[lbhdc]

Totally fair, and I agree contributor docs generally make more sense to be in their own document. That is how I feel I have seen most repos handle those docs.

I was thinking less about contributors, and more about someone who just wants to use your project locally. Spin it up, try it out.

Scanning through the appsmith repo, I don't see any files that jump out to me as documentation on how to build and run it. So it seems I would need to dig through the build system to discover what runnable things are in there. I would probably have to look at some application code to figure out what kind of storage it wants to talk to and how to configure that.

That is a lot of work to give it a test drive. I assume this is to keep some moat for the saas offering, but that dx makes me less likely to consider exploring it to begin with.