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@@ -28,19 +28,3 @@ The API is split up into a number of internal packages -
 Type definitions for interfaces as exposed by Polkadot & Substrate clients -
 
 - [@polkadot/types](packages/types/) Codecs for all Polkadot and Substrate primitives
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-## development
-
-Contributions are welcome!
-
-To start off, this repo (along with others in the [@polkadot](https://github.com/polkadot-js/) family) uses yarn workspaces to organise the code. As such, after cloning, its dependencies _should_ be installed via `yarn`, not via npm; the latter will result in broken dependencies.
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-To get started -
-
-1. Clone the repo locally, via `git clone https://github.com/polkadot-js/api <optional local path>`
-2. Ensure that you have a recent version of Node.js, for development purposes [Node 10](https://nodejs.org/en/) is recommended.
-3. Ensure that you have a recent version of Yarn, for development purposes [Yarn >=1.10.1](https://yarnpkg.com/docs/install) is required.
-4. Install the dependencies by running `yarn`
-5. Build the everything via `yarn run build`
-6. You can also launch the API Docs, via `yarn vuepress dev docs`
-7. Access the docs via [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080)