# Getting Started

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After doing the quick start, you should have a development project which is up and running and connected to your main data storage system.

However, you can plug as many data sources as you want into the same agent.

### What can I connect to?

Forest Admin collections map to any of those concepts:

* Database collections/tables
* ORM models
* Endpoints on SaaS providers (by writing a custom data source)
* Endpoints on your own API (by writing a custom data source)

### Example

In this example, we import tables from a PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Mongo database into Forest Admin.

```javascript
const { createAgent } = require('@forestadmin/agent');
const { createSqlDataSource } = require('@forestadmin/datasource-sql');
const { createMongooseDataSource } = require('@forestadmin/datasource-mongoose');

// Plug multiple data sources to a single agent.
const agent = createAgent(options)
  .addDataSource(
    createSqlDataSource('postgres://user:pass@a.server:5432/database_name'),
  )
  .addDataSource(
    createSqlDataSource(
      'mariadb://user:pass@another.server:5432/other_database_name',
    ),
  )
  .addDataSource(createMongooseDataSource(require('./mongoose-models')));
```


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```
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```

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