# Fork the Starter App Repository

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| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-quick-start/fork-the-starter-app-repository |
| **course_slug** | contentstack-quick-start |
| **lesson_slug** | fork-the-starter-app-repository |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/contentstack-quick-start/fork-the-starter-app-repository.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-11T07:02:26.690Z |

> Part of **[Contentstack Quick Start](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-quick-start)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### At a glance

- **Title:** Fork The Starter App Repository
- **Duration:** 2m 28s
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#### Video transcript

To fork the Starter App Repository, you need to make sure that you're logged in to GitHub like I am here. Once you are, you can visit the URL of the Starter App, which is in the description of the course on the Academy site. Once you're there, click the Fork button up towards the top. Now this next screen may vary a little bit depending if you've authorized ContentStack in the past. If you haven't, you'll have one additional step to do that. In my case, I have, so all I need to do is make sure that the owner is correct, and then select Copy the Main Branch Only checkbox. Then I can click Fork. Now this may take a few seconds, but eventually you should see the repository for the Restaurant Menu React app. Now to work with these files, we need to move over to VS Code. My Explorer is collapsed, so I'll go ahead and expand it, and then I'll click Open Folder. We need to create a directory to house the files that we bring over from our repository. You really can name it whatever you want and put it wherever you want. To keep it simple, I'll create a new folder on my desktop and I'll call it Getting Started. Once you create the folder, click Open. Next we need to get the files from the repository, so I'll open the Terminal by coming up to the Terminal menu and choosing New Terminal. In the Terminal, you'll see that I'm currently in the Getting Started directory on my desktop, which is where I want to be. If you're not, you'll have to change your directory, but for now all I have to do is type git clone and then type in the repository address, which is https://github.com slash your username, which in my case is pz-cs, forward slash the name of the forked repository, which is restaurant-menu-react-app.git. Once you have that typed in, press Enter. In the Explorer, you should see it populated with the files and directories in the forked repo.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Fork the Starter App Repository** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

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### Content summary

Fork the Starter App Repository. Fork the Starter App Repository in Contentstack Quick Start (contentstack-quick-start).

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- Repository
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