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Angular
=========

Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications. This is the
repository for [Angular 2][ng2], both the JavaScript (JS) and [Dart][dart] versions.

Angular 2 is currently in **Release Candidate**.

## Quickstart

[Get started in 5 minutes][quickstart].


## Want to help?

Want to file a bug, contribute some code, or improve documentation? Excellent! Read up on our
guidelines for [contributing][contributing] and then check out one of our issues in the [hotlist: community-help](https://github.com/angular/angular/labels/hotlist%3A%20community-help).


[contributing]: http://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
[dart]: http://www.dartlang.org
[dartium]: http://www.dartlang.org/tools/dartium
[quickstart]: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstart.html
[ng2]: http://angular.io
[ngDart]: http://angulardart.org
[ngJS]: http://angularjs.org