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#### Frontend requirements

In order to run the frontend, you will need to have installed:
In order to run the frontend on Windows and macOS, you will need to have installed:

- [node](https://nodejs.org/en/) >= 6.10.0
- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm) >= 4.0.0
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instructions. If you already have these tools, or you have a different
preferred method of installing packages like these, that should work fine.

> Note that you may need to install these as root using `sudo` in some cases.
If you are on Linux, use [nvm](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/blob/master/README.md)
to install to ensure that the use of `npm` does not require the use of `sudo`.

The front end should run fine after these steps. Please file an issue if you run
into any trouble.

#### Building and serving the frontend

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