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+# Vikunja desktop
+
+The Vikunja frontend all repackaged as an electron app to run as a desktop app!
+
+## Dev
+
+As this repo does not contain any code, only a thin wrapper around electron, you will need to do this to get the 
+actual frontend bundle and build the app:
+
+```bash
+wget https://dl.vikunja.io/frontend/vikunja-frontend-master.zip
+unzip vikunja-frontend-master.zip -d frontend
+sed -i 's/\/fonts/\.\/fonts/g' frontend/index.html
+sed -i 's/\/js/\.\/js/g' frontend/index.html      
+sed -i 's/\/css/\.\/css/g' frontend/index.html    
+sed -i 's/\/images/\.\/images/g' frontend/index.html
+sed -i 's/\/images/\.\/images/g' frontend/js/*
+```
+
+## Building for release
+
+TODO