# Where to go next
URL: https://lsd.tools/docs/start-where-next
Updated: 2026-07-18

> The docs are a journey. Building Tools teaches the Tool API. Views covers the one View class — sidebar input forms (params + actions) and data views (tables, charts, flowcharts). Packages covers bundling, publishing, and licensing. Guides are task walkthroughs. Examples are complete runnable code. API Reference is the exact lookup.

You've installed LSD, run a pipeline, and written a node. Here's the rest of the map — roughly in
the order most people need it.

## Build things

- **[Building Tools](/docs/tools-tool-object)** — the Tool API in depth: load/shape/deliver steps,
 the [parameters-vs-ports rule](/docs/tools-params-ports), [multiple outputs](/docs/tools-multi-output),
 [variants](/docs/tools-variants), and [commands and views](/docs/tools-commands-actions).
- **[Views](/docs/ui-overview)** — build [Views of params and actions](/docs/ui-panels) (a `View`:
 `param()` fields plus `@action` buttons) and [data views](/docs/ui-widgets) (tables, charts, flowcharts) —
 declarative, never GTK.

## Ship things

- **[Packages](/docs/pkg-anatomy)** — bundle tools into a package, [develop it](/docs/pkg-develop)
 with hot reload, manage it in the [Package Manager](/docs/pkg-manager), and
 [publish](/docs/pkg-publish) it to the store with [plans and licensing](/docs/pkg-plans-licensing).

## Learn by doing

- **** — task-focused: the authoring loop,
 , ,
 , and .
- **[Examples](/docs/ex-hello-tool)** — complete, runnable tools you can copy and adapt.

## Look it up

- **[API Reference](/docs/api-index)** — every public class and function in `lsdtools`, with
 signatures and examples: [Tool](/docs/api-tool), [Table](/docs/api-table),
 [Engine](/docs/api-engine), [Source](/docs/api-source), and more.

## Related

**Learn** — [The Package Manager](/docs/pkg-manager)

**API** — [lsdtools reference](/docs/api-index)

**Examples** — [Your first tool](/docs/ex-hello-tool)