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+v18.15.0
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-# create-svelte
+# Anvil
 
-Everything you need to build a Svelte project, powered by [`create-svelte`](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/tree/master/packages/create-svelte).
+/!\ work in progress!
 
-## Creating a project
+[Kanban](https://tree.taiga.io/project/perelev-anvil) |
+[Chat](https://matrix.to/#/#general-forgefed:matrix.batsense.net)
 
-If you're seeing this, you've probably already done this step. Congrats!
+Anvil is a web client app for interacting with federated forges. It's meant to
+allow you to:
 
-```bash
-# create a new project in the current directory
-npm create svelte@latest
+- Create an account of a federated forge
+- Browse software projects
+- Create and manage your software projects
+- Create and manage teams and organizations
+- Participate and interact with software projects: Repo, issues, PRs, CI, etc.
+  etc.
 
-# create a new project in my-app
-npm create svelte@latest my-app
-```
+It's meant to be deployed in 3 ways:
+
+1. [Tauri](https://tauri.app) app, packaged with Flatpak, that you can install
+   on your desktop
+2. Independent fully-client-side hosted app you can access using a web browser
+   and connect to any forge (we will probably host one on Anvil's website for
+   convenient reachout, but anyone can host on their server)
+3. Hosted app served by federated forge servers as their default UI, in
+   multi-page mode and pre-rendered pages
+
+Status (May 2023): Implementation is in very early initial stages.
+
+Tech stack:
+
+- SvelteKit
+- TypeScript
+- Tailwind
+- Skeleton.dev
+
+Soon also:
+
+- Tauri
+- ActivityPub
+- ForgeFed
 
 ## Developing
 
-Once you've created a project and installed dependencies with `npm install` (or `pnpm install` or `yarn`), start a development server:
+Install NodeJS. Recommended method: [FNM](https://github.com/Schniz/fnm).
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+```bash
+npm install
+```
+
+Launch development server:
 
 ```bash
 npm run dev
@@ -25,14 +59,31 @@ npm run dev
 npm run dev -- --open
 ```
 
+Quick overview of the structure of the codebase:
+
+This repo was started via `npm create skeleton-app@latest` with the "Welcome"
+template.
+
+More components can be added using
+[`create-svelte`](https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/tree/master/packages/create-svelte).
+
 ## Building
 
-To create a production version of your app:
+We haven't yet installed [adapters](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters) for
+the target environments. Coming soon.
+
+To create a production version of the app:
 
 ```bash
 npm run build
 ```
 
-You can preview the production build with `npm run preview`.
+To preview the production build:
 
-> To deploy your app, you may need to install an [adapter](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters) for your target environment.
+```bash
+npm run preview
+```
+
+## Software freedoms (a.k.a license)
+
+GNU AGPL v3 or later.