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+Copyright © 2021 Garrett Mills
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
+to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
+OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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+<center>
+<br>
+<img alt="The Extollo logo" src="https://static.garrettmills.dev/sites/extollo/docs/assets/logo/svg/Extollo-Icon-and-Text-LIGHT-Final.svg" height="150">
+<br><br>
+<b>extollo</b> - (v. <em>latin</em>) - to lift up, to elevate
+<br><br>
+Extollo is a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html" target="_blank">free & libre</a> application framework in TypeScript.
+</center>
+<hr>
+
+Built on principles of modularity, strict-typing, inversion-of-control, and developer ergonomics, Extollo enables developers to build maintainable, scalable, and expressive applications.
+
+Node.js provides an excellent platform for quickly getting an application up and running, but this loose minimalism can lead to larger, more unweildy code-bases as your application grows. Extollo fixes this by providing an opinionated, robust framework and first-party modules that provide, among other things:
+
+- Type-based dependency injection
+- Strongly-typed ORM with an expressive query-builder and models
+- Customizable session & caching interfaces
+- Modular, pre-compiled, nest-able routes
+- First-party, extensible command line tools
+- Unit-based application structure
+
+## Getting Started
+Writing an application with Extollo is very straightforward if you are familiar with Node.js/TypeScript, or similar frameworks like Laravel.
+
+Check out the [Getting Started](https://extollo.garrettmills.dev/pages/Documentation/Getting-Started.html) page on the documentation site for more information.
+
+## License & Philosophy
+The Extollo project is, and will always be, free & libre software. The framework itself is open-source available [here](https://code.garrettmills.dev/Extollo), and is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.
+
+## Contributing
+Have an improvement or fix to Extollo? Contributors are always welcome. See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for next steps.