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type: docs
title: "Try out Dapr quickstarts to learn core concepts"
linkTitle: "Dapr Quickstarts"
weight: 50
description: "Configure Redis for Dapr state management or Pub/Sub"
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The [Dapr Quickstarts](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1) are a collection of tutorials with code samples that are aimed to get you started quickly with Dapr, each highlighting a different Dapr capability.

## Quickstarts

| Quickstart               | Description                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Hello-world](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/hello-world)            | Demonstrates how to run Dapr locally. Highlights service invocation and state management.                                                                                                      |
| [Hello-kubernetes](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/hello-kubernetes)       | Demonstrates how to run Dapr in Kubernetes. Highlights service invocation and state management.                                                                                                |
| [Distributed-calculator](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/distributed-calculator) | Demonstrates a distributed calculator application that uses Dapr services to power a React web app. Highlights polyglot (multi-language) programming, service invocation and state management. |
| [Pub-sub](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/pub-sub)                | Demonstrates how to use Dapr to enable pub-sub applications. Uses Redis as a pub-sub component.                                                                                          |
| [Bindings](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/bindings)            | Demonstrates how to use Dapr to create input and output bindings to other components. Uses bindings to Kafka.                                                                            |
| [Middleware](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/middleware) | Demonstrates use of Dapr middleware to enable OAuth 2.0 authorization. |
| [Observability](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/observability) | Demonstrates Dapr tracing capabilities. Uses Zipkin as a tracing component. |
| [Secret Store](https://github.com/dapr/quickstarts/tree/v1.0.0-rc.1/secretstore) | Demonstrates the use of Dapr Secrets API to access secret stores. |