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        <h1 class="docs-title">Ratchet</h1>
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        <a class="version" href="https://github.com/maker/ratchet" data-ignore="push">v2.0.0</a>
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      <h2 class="section-heading">The mobile framework built for you</h2>
      <p class="section-lead">Here's why we think you're going to love it.</p>
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      <h3 class="benefit-heading">Simple web technology</h3>
      <p class="benefit-text">Ratchet is built simple HTML, CSS, and JS. We used the power of SASS to make Ratchet extremely capable at quickly building mobile applications you can start playing with right away.</p>
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      <h3 class="benefit-heading">Tons of UI patterns</h3>
      <p class="benefit-text">All the UI patterns that you'd expect in one simple framework. We've included our buttons, controls, forms, and behaviors that are optimized for performance in your app.</p>
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      <h3 class="benefit-heading">Native platform themes</h3>
      <p class="benefit-text">Building an application for iOS or Android? Look no further. Ratchet provides platform specific themes that work on top of our standard components.</p>
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      <h3 class="benefit-heading">Fast and easy</h3>
      <p class="benefit-text">It's super fast to get set up with Ratchet. Once you've downloaded the code, take a look at one of our starter templates or example applications.</p>
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      <h3 class="contribute-heading">Contribute code</h3>
      <p class="contribute-text">Have an feature or component you want to build? Open a pull request on our GitHub project. Our contributors make Ratchet better every day.</p>
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      <p class="footer-content">Code licensed under the MIT license. Ratchet version 2.0.0 was lovingly crafted by <a href="https://twitter.com/connors">Connor Sears</a>.</p>
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