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 #### Tips
 * I run the web server with `screen` to keep the web server running independently of the terminal session.
+* Ubuntu users will need to install `nodejs-legacy` (`sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy`) for dependencies to install successfully. You can read more on [this Stack Overflow post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21168141/cannot-install-packages-using-node-package-manager-in-ubuntu).
 
 # Screenshots
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