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 * braid uses [typescript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript) for our primary code development because of it's opinionated type management among other things. Get a good understanding of what typescript is, it's benifits, drawbacks, and dev flow
 
 ## Setting up
-* install (npm)[https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm]
-* install typescript globally (`npm i -g typescript`). This is important because it is needed to transcompile, so you can run your changes, locally (using command `tsc`)
+* install [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
+* install typescript globally (`npm i -g typescript`). This is important because it is needed to transcompile, so you can run your changes locally (using command `tsc`)
 * download the braid repo into a folder in the same directory as the primary yardstick folder
 * `vagrant up` in the primary yardstick folder
 * run the command `compose stop braid && compose rm braid && tsc && compose build braid && compose up -d`