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 # Clippable
 
-A small self hostable alternative to streamable
+A small self hostable alternative to streamable. Built with Rocket.rs
 
-## Currently being built
+## Status
 
-For a full status on things to do before its ready for regular use check the issues page.
+Right now the public API is being built so that as long as there videos to serve
+the application should serve 
+
+## Admin Setup/Configuration
+
+There are a few environment variables that can be configured:
+
+* `CLIPS_DIR` : default = `/media/clips`
+
+* `THUMBS_DIR`: default = `/media/thumbnails`
+
+## Building the backend
+
+Currently the project relies on Rust Nightly to build due to a requirement in
+Rocket however as that framework moves to Rust Stable so to will this project.
+
+
+## Building frontend javascript
+
+Currently the website's javascript is written in typescript then compiled to 
+Javascript. The output directory is `/api/static/js/` which means `mkdir -p api/static/js`
+must be ran in order to ensure that output directory is present and compilation
+succeeds.  There are no dependencies and is only written in typescript to 
+enforce some level of consistency among contributor code.
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