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 The compressed version is what we recommend including in applications.
 
+DOCUMENTATION
+================
+The documentation is auto-generated using JSDoc.  If you don't have JSDoc installed, download and unzip from:
+https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/archive/master.zip
+
+To make doc, cd to the root directory of ndn-js and run the following command to put the output in subdirectory doc:
+<path-to-jsdoc>/jsdoc --recurse --destination doc js
 
 WEBSOCKETS PROXY
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