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-# Nitro Minimal Starter
+# McFly Starter Project
 
-Look at the [Nitro documentation](https://nitro.unjs.io/) to learn more.
+**McFly** is a no-framework framework that assists in leveraging the web platform
 
-## Setup
-
-Make sure to install the dependencies:
-
-```bash
-# npm
-npm install
-
-# yarn
-yarn install
-
-# pnpm
-pnpm install
 ```
-
-## Development Server
-
-Start the development server on <http://localhost:3000>
-
-```bash
-npm run dev
+npm create mcfly@latest
 ```
+![template-basic](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ayoayco/McFly/main/assets/template-basic.png)
 
-## Production
+## Features
+- Create web apps with vanilla custom elements
+- Write real .HTML files
+- Have no frameworks or reactivity libraries on the browser
+- Use server-side rendering
+- Deploy anywhere
 
-Build the application for production:
+## Special directories
+**1. `src/pages`**
+- file based routing for `.html` files
+- directly use custom elements & static fragments (no imports or registry maintenance needed)
+- use `<script server:setup>` to define logic that runs on the server, which then gets stripped away
 
-```bash
-npm run build
-```
-
-Locally preview production build:
-
-```bash
-npm run preview
-```
-
-Check out the [deployment documentation](https://nitro.unjs.io/deploy) for more information.
+**2. `src/components`**
+- custom element constructor files (only `.js` files for now)
+- all components are automatically registered using their file names; a `hello-world.js` component can be used as `<hello-world>`
+- static `.html` fragments; a `my-header.html` fragment can be directly used as `<my-header>`