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+# Twigs
+
+Twigs is a cross-platform budgeting application. This library serves as the base for all of the apps.
+
+## Building
+
+Twigs is built with CMake. In addition to that, you'll also need the following dependencies:
+
+    sudo apt install libjsoncpp-dev \
+        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+        libssl-dev \
+        libcppunit-dev
+