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@@ -57,3 +57,17 @@ npm run-script build
 ```bash
 pip install waitress
 ```
+
+## Running the final repo
+
+To run the final version of the code, clone the repo, and run the following commands from inside the repo folder.
+```bash
+python3 -m venv demo_venv
+source demo_venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+cd frontend
+npm install
+npm run-script build
+cd ..
+python3 server.py
+```
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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+flask
+waitress