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+# LBRY Web User Interface
+
+This is the frontend for LBRY's in-browser application, that is automatically installed when a user installs [LBRY](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry).
+
+## Development Setup
+
+These steps will get you to change-reload-see:
+
+- Install [LBRY](//github.com/lbryio/lbry)
+- Install node and npm ([this gist may be useful](https://gist.github.com/isaacs/579814))
+- Install babel (`npm install -g babel-cli babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react`)
+- Install [SASS](http://sass-lang.com/install)
+- Run ./watch.sh
+- Open index.html
+- Changes made in `js` and `sass` will be auto compiled to `dist`