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 # school-management-vue
 
+The frontend website for a school management system accessible by staff and students.
+
+This project is the basic application to serve the webpages and communicate with the [api](https://github.com/SowinskiBraeden/school-management-api)
+
 ## Project setup
 ```
 npm install