diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,11 +4,18 @@ Shortenit is a tool to shorten urls.
 
 **NOTE**: This is a very early draft project. Contributions are welcome.
 
+## Install
+
+To install `shortenit` and all of its dependencies for development, run the following script.
+
+``` shell
+$ scripts/install.sh
+```
+
 ## Running
 
-To run `shortenit`, edit the configuration file found in [config/config.yaml](config/config.yaml) then run the following commands.
+To run `shortenit` for development, edit the configuration file found in [config/config.yaml](config/config.yaml) then run the following script.
 
 ```text
-$ pip install -e .
-$ shortenit
+$ scripts/run.sh
 ```
diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0ad942e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd frontend
+npm install
+
+cd ..
+poetry install
diff --git a/scripts/run.sh b/scripts/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2864606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd frontend
+npm run build
+cd ..
+poetry run shortenit