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+The script make-js.sh combines all of the NDN.JS scripts into a file called ndn-js-uncomp.js that can be more easily included in a webpage.  It them runs Google's Closure Compiler to create a compressed version, ndn-js.js.   This is what we recommend including in applications.
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