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+# The 'mock' directory contains code that can emulate the server-side of
+# a web socket (probably using node.js) to facilitate the manual injection
+# of (JSON structured) events, to aid in the development / debugging of
+# client side code.
+#
+# Each subdirectory will be per-view event data.
+#