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+### Developement setup
+
+Requirements:
+* nodejs
+* corepack (shipped with nodejs, however on some distributions it is not distributed, in which case install it through npm using: `npm install -g corepack`)
+
+To regenerated the compiled javascript files in `dist/`, call:
+```
+corepack enable
+yarn build
+```