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title: Quickstart guide
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# Quickstart guide

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Before you get started:

You must first [create a Cloudflare account](https://docs-durable-objects-instance-replaced-errors.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/account/create-account/).

## Create your first app

Every Realtime App is a separate environment, so you can make one for development, staging and production versions for your product. Either using [Dashboard ↗](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/realtime/sfu), or the [API](https://docs-durable-objects-instance-replaced-errors.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/calls/subresources/sfu/methods/create/) create a Realtime App. When you create a Realtime App, you will get:

* App ID
* App Secret

These two combined will allow you to make API Realtime from your backend server to Realtime.

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