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+# Install and run mods
+
+You need to first install [node.js](https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node).
+
+Install the [http-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server) npm package. Including '-g' sets the installs the package gloabally, allowing you to use it as a command line tool:
+
+<code>npm install http-server -g</code>
+
+Clone the mods repository:
+
+<code>git clone ssh://git@gitlab.cba.mit.edu:846/pub/mods.git</code>
+
+Use the command line to navigate to the root of the mods repository:
+
+<code>cd mods</code>
+
+Start up a server:
+
+<code>http-server</code>
+
+Open a browser tab and go to <code>127.0.0.1:8080</code> which is the same as <code>http://localhost:8080</code> to view the server that you just started.
+
+Depending on how to need to use mods you can start local servers located in <code>mods/js</code>, for example, if you start from the root of the mods repository:
+
+<code>cd js</code>
+
+<code>node printserver.js</code>
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