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Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ on the App, you will also need to [install node and npm][nvm] - we recommend thr

We provide a shortcut to standard commands using [just][just] in our `justfile`.

### Windows Subsystem for Linux

For WSL users, you might need to install `build-essential` and `libxcb` otherwise you might run into `cc` linking errors (cc stands for C Compiler).
Install them by running these commands:

```
sudo apt update # Refreshes package list (no installs yet)
sudo apt install build-essential # build-essential is a package that installs all core tools
sudo apt install libxcb1-dev # libxcb1-dev is the development package for the X C Binding (XCB) library on Linux
```

## Getting Started

### Rust
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