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 # The playground
 
-The playground is the quickest way to hack on the internals of Theatre. It also hosts our end-to-end tests. It uses a simple vite config that builds all the related packages in one go, so you _don't_ have to run a bunch of build commands separately to start developing.
+The playground is the quickest way to hack on the internals of Theatre. It also hosts our end-to-end tests. It uses a build setup that builds all the related packages in one go, so you _don't_ have to run a bunch of build commands separately to start developing.
 
 ## Directory structure
 
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