diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8485ce..df312d1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,23 @@
 # Webapp Template
+
+Template designed to quickly build full stack apps.
+
+## Technologies
+
+- Containerization: Docker/Docker Compose
+
+- Frontend: React
+
+- Backend: FastAPI
+
+## Deployment
+
+Uses `make` to quickly dispatch `docker-compose` commands.
+
+- `build`: builds the container using `docker-compose build `
+
+- `up`: ups the container using `docker-compose up`
+
+- `deps`: rebuilds the frontend to deploy statically using the api
+
+Ex: `make deps build up`
diff --git a/docker-compose.dev.yml b/docker-compose.dev.yml
index 3753ae0..cea7781 100644
--- a/docker-compose.dev.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.dev.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 version: "3"
 services:
   frontend:
-    # command: ["npm", "run", "start"]
     volumes:
-      - .:/project/app/
-      - ./api:/project/api
+      - "$PWD/build:/project/api/build"