From 2d860b66761b5f766dd9f09f0ec8bc470d9e773d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Browne <stephenalexbrowne@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:47:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md

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+## Building TypeScript packages
+
+Mesh contains some TypeScript packages, all of which are contained in a small monorepo in the __packages/__ directory. Some
+packages are published, and some are only used internally for development and testing.
+
+To build all the TypeScript packages:
+
+```
+yarn build
+```
+
+You can also run `yarn build` inside of individual packages in order to just build that package and its dependencies. However,
+changing any Go code will require running `yarn build` at the root of the project again.
+
 ## Running Tests
 
 Some of the tests depend on having a test Ethereum node running. Before running