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 **the AngularJS and RequireJS using TypeScript Seed**
 
 
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 This project is an application skeleton for a typical [AngularJS](http://angularjs.org/) web app
 using [RequireJS](http://requirejs.org/) written in [TypeScript](http://www.typescriptlang.org/).
 
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 [license-url]: https://github.com/gregoranders/arts/blob/master/LICENSE