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 Now you are all setup to run ``make develop`` and related make targets without
 changing you main environment.
 
+The following is only needed if you wish to build the documentation.
+
+After you ran ``make develop``, create a new *node virtual env* with (the freshly installed)
+``nodeenv``::
+
+    nodeenv .nodeenv
+    source .nodeenv/bin/activate
+
+Finally use npm to setup jsdoc in your virtual node environment::
+    npm install -g jsdoc
+
 Manual Installation For Testing and Development
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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