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 # Teacher Tools
 A collection of simple, easy-to-use utilities for classroom management.
+
+## Architecture
+
+This application is built as a Vue3 frontend web application that's served as
+static content to the user, and a backend API that's organized into different
+"app" namespaces for each separate sub-application provided by this site,
+which might categorize this application as a *modular monolith*.
+
+In the frontend, app-specific content is located under `app/src/apps/<app-name>`,
+and in the backend, you'll find it at `api/source/api_modules/<app-name>`.
+
+In addition to specific apps for certain features, authentication is managed
+globally for the application.
+
+## Deploying
+
+Right now, the application is simply deployed as static web content and a
+SystemD service to my DigitalOcean server. Since the API is written in D and
+the app is just 100Kib of static content, this app uses almost no resources.
+
+See the various scripts in this root directory for actions. For most cases, you
+can just run `./deploy.sh` to build and deploy the API and app.