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+# The Invidious documentation
+
+# Running the documentation locally for development purposes
+
+## Local `mkdocs-material` installation
+
+```bash
+# You might want to create a virtualenv first
+pip install mkdocs-material
+mkdocs-material serve
+```
+
+## With docker
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm -it -p 8000:8000 -v ${PWD}:/docs squidfunk/mkdocs-material:latest
+```