A Map to Hadronic Physics from GlueX

The GlueX Experiment in Hall-D at Jefferson Lab started its official physics program in the spring of 2017, collecting about 50 billion events over a five-week period. Utilizing the CEBAF 11.6 GeV electron beam, polarized photons in the energy range from 8.2 to 8.8 GeV were collected in four different orientations of linear polarization and analysis of this data is advanced. This talk will report of the various GlueX programs of physics analysis to better understand production mechanisms at these photon energies, initial work on understanding polarization observable which will ultimately lead to amplitude analysis, and opportunistic physics searches made possible by the GlueX data. Finally, how these feed into our ultimate searches for exotic quantum number states in GlueX.