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 ## Installation
 
+Note that steps 1-2 below are only necessary if you wish to integrate
+SVG-edit into your own npm package; otherwise, you can skip those steps
+and instead of looking within `node_modules/svgedit`, look within your
+copy of the svgedit Git repo.
+
 1. Set up an npm package of your own: `npm init` (complete the fields).
 1. Install SVG-edit into your package: `npm i svgedit`
 1. Copy `svgedit-config-sample-es.js` (in the SVG-edit project root;