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@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ Reagent provides a way to write efficient React components using (almost) nothin
   * **[News](http://reagent-project.github.io/news/index.html)**
   * **[Reagent Project Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/reagent-project)**
 
-To use Reagent you add this to your dependencies in `project.clj`:
+To create a new Reagent project simply run:
+
+    lein new reagent myproject
+    
+This will setup a new Reagent project with some reasonable defaults, see here for more [details](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-template). 
+
+To use Reagent in an existing project you add this to your dependencies in `project.clj`:
 
     [reagent "0.4.3"]
 
@@ -27,7 +33,6 @@ add
 
 directly to your html.
 
-
 ## Examples
 
 Reagent uses [Hiccup-like](https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) markup instead of React's sort-of html. It looks like this: