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+# Vikunja Theme
+
+[![Build Status](https://drone.kolaente.de/api/badges/vikunja/theme/status.svg)](https://drone.kolaente.de/vikunja/theme)
+
+This repo provides the [hugo](https://gohugo.io) theme for the [vikunj.io](https://vikunj.io) website, docs and blog.
+
+## Building
+
+You need nodejs 16 and yarn v1.
+
+```bash
+yarn # install all dependencies
+yarn prod
+yarn clean
+yarn release
+```
+
+Will give you the theme in a tar file in the `dist/` folder.