Cscott has uploaded a new change for review.

  https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/159101

Change subject: Clarify README with local development instructions.
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Clarify README with local development instructions.

Change-Id: Ic61ff6df80e22e2e8977e7b9cd44fe58aff328cd
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M README.md
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


  git pull 
ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/Collection/OfflineContentGenerator
 refs/changes/01/159101/1

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 827bfe4..6817859 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,11 +20,24 @@
 Create `/etc/mw-collection-ocg.js` to configure the render service.
 See [the default configuration](./defaults.js) for more details.
 
+## Running a development server
+See 
[wiki](https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OCG#Installing_a_development_instance)
+for instructions on how to configure a local [Collection] extension to point
+to this server.  But you can run a local instance with
+```sh
+apt-get install redis-server # runs a local redis service on port 6379
+cd <repodir> ; npm install
+./mw-ocg-service.js # starts a front end ocg service on port 17080
+```
+
 ## Binary node modules
-The following node binary modules are required:
-* hiredis
+The following node binary module is required:
 * sqlite3 (for `bundler` and `latex_renderer`)
 
+In addition, better performance is obtained if the following binary
+module is installed:
+* hiredis (for this service)
+
 Be aware of these when deploying to a new node version or machine
 architecture.  You may need to `npm rebuild <package name>`.
 

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Gerrit-Change-Id: Ic61ff6df80e22e2e8977e7b9cd44fe58aff328cd
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