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+# 🐾 catApi
+> **catApi** is *scuffed* website (fully equipped with an API, obviously) to display pictures of cats from the `/images/` directory 
+which are supplied by the kind people who sent me pictures of their cats, and also my own. More cats are always welcome in the paw zone.
+###### I was initially going to name this project "Onlypaws" but I am too lazy to implement a donation system.
+
+
+## Self-Hosting
+If you are, for some reason, interested in self-hosting your own version of this website; feel absolutely free to. Fork it, download it, mirror it. Not just that I *don't care* what you do with the code, I will also 
+appreciate any kind of contributions that you might decide to make. I have been told multiple times that my code is crude and scuffed, so feel free to fix that. Good luck, though.
+
+### Dependencies
+* [git](https://git-scm.com/downloads)
+* [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
+* npm or [Yarn](https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/) (I recommend Yarn)
+
+### With Yarn/npm
+
+```sh
+# Clone this git repository 
+git clone https://github.com/NotAShelf/catApi.git
+
+# Move to the new directory
+cd catApi
+
+# Install dependencies
+yarn 
+
+# Alternatively, to install dependencies
+npm install
+
+# Create the .env file for environmental variables (Optional, there are fallback options for both environmental variables)
+cp .sample.env .env
+
+# Start the application with
+yarn start
+
+# Alternatively, to start the application
+npm run start
+```
+
+### With Docker Compose
+TODO
+
+## Versioning
+catApi is a new idea I am planning to work on (while the idea, in general, is not new, it is for me in terms of working on a project. Leave me alone.) 
+and thus, we are currently on the V1 branch. V2 will *probably* introduce proper FrontEnd because let's admit it, a bare website that displays 
+**literally a picture** and nothing else looks bad. When, you may ask? Whenever the heck I want, I answer.
+
+## Contributing
+TODO
+
+## API Documentation (WIP)
+* **`/api/id`**
+> return data about the specified image, by ID 
+> - **e.g. `http://localhost:3000/api/3`**
+* **`/api/list`**
+> return a list of all images on the server (explicitly from the `/images` directory)
+> - e.g. `http://localhost:3000/api/list`
+* **`/api/random`** 
+> returns data about a random image on the server
+> - e.g `http://localhost:3000/api/random`
+
+## License
+
+**catApi** is licensed under the [MIT](https://github.com/NotAShelf/catApi/blob/v1/LICENSE) license.