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@@ -7,3 +7,30 @@ This is a fork of [`react-beautiful-dnd`](https://github.com/atlassian/react-bea
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+
+
+## To Build
+
+```
+npm i
+npm run-script build
+```
+
+## Instructions
+
+To run this repo's code within `app`:
+
+in this repo's directory:
+```
+yarn link
+```
+
+in the `app` repo directory:
+```
+yarn link "react-beautiful-dnd"
+yarn && yarn start
+```
+
+**Tip:** To check if `app` is actually using this repo's code, add a `console.log` to `src/index.js` and see if it prints.
+
+As of May 11, 2022: Working in Node 16 but _not_ in Node 17