> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started.md).

# Get Started

- [Get Started with Brighter](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/getstarted.md): Brighter's tutorials are a ladder: four rungs, each one a working application, each one adding a single capability to the rung below it.
- [1. Your First Command](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/tutorialfirstcommand.md): Build a .NET console app that sends a command to its handler through Brighter's Command Processor, in-process, with no broker and no Docker.
- [2. Your First Message Over a Broker](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/tutorialfirstmessage.md): Send an event from one process, over a RabbitMQ exchange, to a second process that handles it.
- [3. Adding a Durable Outbox](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/tutorialdurableoutbox.md): Write your business data and the message announcing it in one Postgres transaction, then let the Sweeper deliver the message once that transaction has committed.
- [4. Streaming with Kafka](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/tutorialstreamingwithkafka.md): Send the same greeting over a three-partition Kafka topic, then start a second copy of the receiver and watch Kafka hand it half the partitions.
- [Why Brighter?](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/whybrighter.md): Brighter and Darker are two of many options open to a .NET developer who needs a command processor, a command dispatcher, or a messaging framework.
- [Basic Concepts](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/basicconcepts.md): A command is an instruction to carry out work.
- [Show me the code!](https://brightercommand.gitbook.io/paramore-brighter-documentation/get-started/showmethecode.md): There is an old principle: show don't tell, and this introduction is about showing you what you can do with Brighter and Darker.


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