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 Example screenshot of the console output from this app:
 
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+## Developing
+
+If you're developing code for this repository, it's recommended to configure
+your development environment:
+
+### Code style
+
+1. Ensure `clang-format` is installed
+2. Ensure [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com) is installed
+3. Set up `pre-commit` for this repository:
+
+  ``` console
+  pre-commit install
+  ```
+
+This helps ensure that consistent code formatting is applied, by running
+`clang-format` each time you change the code (via a git pre-commit hook) using
+the [./.clang-format](./.clang-format) code style configuration file.
+
+If you ever want to re-run the code formatting on all files in the repository,
+you can do so:
+
+``` console
+pre-commit run --all-files
+```