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     -    src/main/coffeescript: main code in CoffeeScript
     -    src/main/templates: [handlebars](http://handlebarsjs.com/) templates used to render swagger-ui
     -    src/main/html: the html files, some images and css
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 ### SwaggerUi
 To use swagger-ui you should take a look at the [source of swagger-ui html page](https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-ui/tree/master/src/main/html) and customize it. This basically requires you to instantiate a SwaggerUi object and call load() on it as below: