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+# Conway's Game of Life
+
+## Application and dev stack overview
+
+It is a Conway's game of life implementation with JavaScript in browser. TypeScript is used for static type checking and esbuild for bundling.
+
+## Running instructions
+
+```bash
+# Build
+npm install
+npm run build
+
+# Open in browser
+chromium index.html
+
+# With webserver
+npx serve -s .
+```