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Check if the bootstrap instructions still work

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, javascript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the bootstrap instructions in the README and verify whether they still work; compare the result with the Docker approach mentioned in the issue. Done means documenting a tested bootstrap path or removing the obsolete instructions and adding Docker run notes.

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Description

The bootstrap instructions in the README are very old and have not been tested for ages. We should consider if we should just remove them and add notes to the docs about how to run this with Docker instead maybe

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
74
Forks
42
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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