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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/codyjdalton/ts-module-seed.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/codyjdalton/ts-module-seed) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/codyjdalton/ts-module-seed/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/codyjdalton/ts-module-seed?branch=master) 
+
+# Typescript Module Seed
+
+One Paragraph of project description goes here
+
+## Getting Started
+
+These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
+
+### Installing
+
+A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running
+
+Say what the step will be
+
+```
+npm i project-name --save
+```
+
+End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo
+
+## Running the tests
+
+Explain how to run the automated tests for this system
+
+```
+npm test
+```
+
+## Deployment
+
+Add additional notes about how to deploy this on a live system
+
+## Versioning
+
+We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/your/project/tags). 
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details
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