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+# Haskell SPA
+
+This is a scaffold for a Haskell single page application.
+
+The front end is in `ui` and setup to build with `stack` and `ghcjs`.
+`stack setup` in the `ui` folder will setup `ghcjs` for the project.
+
+## Dependencies:
+
+1. stack
+2. nodejs