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# Introduction

The purpose of this document is to provide you with the necessary knowledge to start working on the project, both the backend and the frontend part. First, we will go through a brief example that will make use of the frameworks and libraries involved in setting up and running the backend server​. Then, we will configure the frontend and introduce the technologies used.


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