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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`)
 * 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`
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   * `tsc` transpiles the typescript in braid into javascript
   * `compose build braid` builds the braid container based on the latest transpiled javascript files
   * `comopose up -d` builds the braid container based on the files in the braid folder, overriding the defaul braid build container
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 ## Building to Docker Hub
 * run `./build`
 * when complete you'll see something like this `Your new docker tag: yardstick/micro-services:braid-tagid`