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 This module is used to generate a 'concatenated' notebook for use in an LSP based language server. 
 
+### Directions for building
+
+You might want to setup an npm link for the jupyter repository
+
+- git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter.git
+- git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter-lsp-middleware.git
+- git clone https://github.com/microsoft/lsp-notebook-concat.git
+- cd lsp-notebook-concat
+- npm link (sets up linking to this module)
+- cd ..\vscode-jupyter-lsp-middleware
+- npm link @vscode/lsp-notebook-concat (the name of the lsp-notebook-concat module in npm)
+- npm link (set up linking to this module for vscode-jupyter)
+- cd ..\vscode-jupyter
+- npm link @vscode/jupyter-lsp-middleware (the name of the vscode-jupyter-lsp-middleware module in npm)
+
+Then to build vscode-jupyter-lsp-middleware
+
+- npm run download-api (updates vscode.d.ts)
+- npm run webpack (which will setup stuff for using with vscode-python)
+
+### Directions for debugging with jupyter extension
+
+- Run the steps above for getting the npm link setup
+- From with VS code, open both jupyter, lsp-middleware, and lsp-notebook-concat as three folders
+- Build the 'webpack link' task for lsp-notebook-concat
+- Build the 'webpack link' task for lsp-middleware
+- Build the compile task for jupyter
+- Set breakpoints in the dist/index.js file while debugging (it's a development webpack)
+- Edit lsp code
+- Rerun the 'webpack link' build every time (it doesn't watch as it runs a post build step)
+
+### Directions for running tests
+
+- npm run tests (builds and runs tests)
+
 ## Contributing
 
 This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.  Most contributions require you to agree to a