# Development Guide
In order to facilitate developers to quickly get started WeChat Official Account development docking, this chapter mainly explains the development process and attention points.
Official Account The development is mainly divided into two parts: "docking" and "web development."
# Back-end server docking
Official Account itself includes article editing, fan management, and message-related capabilities.When developers want to interface with existing systems, or want to automate something, they need to interact with the WeChat server.
There are two main types of interactions, and developers can refer to the list below to quickly go to the relevant content and complete the development docking process.
| content | introduce |
|---|---|
| Call the Service API | Developers actively call to do something or get some content, such as getting draft box content, sending customer service messages, and so on.(Developer requests WeChat) |
| Events & Messaging | When a user of Official Account sends a message, or some messages and events occur, the WeChat platform needs to proactively push them to the developer's server so that the developer can automate some of the actions.(The WeChat server proactively pushes to the developers, and the developers can choose to arrange the action on their own) |
# Web Development
Go to WeChat Web Development
# Test Number Request
Due to user experience and security concerns, WeChat Official Account registration has a certain threshold, and certain privileges for advanced interfaces require WeChat authentication before they can be obtained.In order to help developers quickly understand and get started with WeChat public number development, familiar with the various interface calls, we launched the WeChat Official Account message template test number, through the mobile phone WeChat scan two-dimensional code can be obtained test number.
WeChat Public account test number application system
# Quick Getting Started
If developers are new to development and don't know how to get started, we've written a new guideline [ to explain common scenario development WeChat Official Account to help get started quickly.