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 ==== App Structure Overview ====
-Both the frontend and backend are programmed in Typescript; Typescript is a type safe, and more structured varient of the javascript lanugage (ES6/ES12-ES2021). We use Yarn on the frontend and backend also, to install packages and run a local development server.
+Both the frontend and backend are programmed in Typescript which is executed by the [[https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node |ts-node]] package; Typescript is a type safe, and more structured superset of the javascript lanugage (ES6/ES12-ES2021). We use [[https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/ |Yarn]] on the frontend and backend also, to install packages (like ts-node) and run a local development server.
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 ====Backend====
-=== Libraries ===
+=== Packages ===
+== ts-node ==
+[[https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node |ts-node]] is a typescript execution engine that allows us to write this project as typescript instead of javascript. ts-node is essentially a `source-to-source compiler` / `transpiler`, as it  turns one language into another, i.e. typescript into javascript.
 == GraphQL (Apollo) ==

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