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 As a brand new version, written from the ground up, there are some known issues and unimplemented features. Check out the [Known Issues](#known-issues) section for more details.
 
+This repo publishes to two different NPM packages:
+
+* [swagger-ui](https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagger-ui) is intended for use as a node module.
+* [swagger-ui-dist](https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagger-ui-dist) comes pre-bundled with all dependencies and can be incorporated directly in a webapp.
+
 For the older version of swagger-ui, refer to the [*2.x branch*](https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/tree/2.x).
 
 ## Compatibility
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 - l10n (translations) is not implemented.
 - Relative path support for external files is not implemented.
 
+### Direct use of JS and CSS assets
+To include the JS, CSS and image assets directly into a webpage, use the [swagger-ui-dist](https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagger-ui-dist) package.
+The root directory of this package contains the contents of the _dist/_ directory of this repo.
+As a node module, `swagger-ui-dist` also exports the `swagger-ui-bundle` and `swagger-ui-standalone-preset` objects.
+
 ### SwaggerUIBundle
 To use swagger-ui's bundles, you should take a look at the [source of swagger-ui html page](https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/blob/master/dist/index.html) and customize it. This basically requires you to instantiate a SwaggerUi object as below: