Best way to write a Gitlab module

Question

I would like to extend Gitlab, mainly writing a custom dashboard. I cannot find any documentation on the 'proper/best/better' way to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction. I already tried searching

Answer 1

There is no way of doing that except by forking GitLab.

The only way of doing those things without forking (and thus merging afterwards...) is the API (since it is guaranteed to be stable) but it is probably overkill for your application.