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+# Alu
+
+Alu is a beautiful, functional, and sleek web proxy, which focuses on customization and ease of use.
+
+# Features
+
+- UV and Rammerhead support
+- Themes
+- Multiple site cloaking options
+- 50+ Games to choose from
+- English and Japanese support
+- High performance
+
+# Deploying Alu
+Deploying Alu is about as simple as it gets, from your terminal, type 
+
+`git clone https://github.com/wearrrrr/Alu --recursive-submodules`
+
+This command should clone Alu's frontend, as well as [alu-games](https://github.com/wearrrrr/alu-games). If you wish to skip cloning games, then leave out the last flag.
+
+Then simply run `npm i` to install all node_modules, and then build the frontend with `npm run build`, this shouldn't take more than a couple seconds.
+
+Finally, run `npm start` to actually serve Alu! It defaults to port 3000 for everything, but this can be specified in an env file.
+
+Congrats, you've now deployed your very own web proxy!
+
+# Technologies
+
+- Ultraviolet by Titanium Network
+- Bare Server from TompHTTP
+- Rammerhead by binary-person
+- Astro from astro.build
+- Typescript
+- ExpressJS
+- Prettier
+
+# License
+
+Alu is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0 License as of 2/9/2024.