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 ### Development mode
 
-To get live code changes in the ESAP API gateway, uncomment the "volumes" section fot the `api-gateway` service in the `docker-compose.yml` file.
+To get live code changes in the ESAP API gateway service, clone the source code repo in its folder (so that it will be located in `services/api-gateway/esap-api-gateway`), then uncomment the "volumes" section for the `api-gateway` service in the `docker-compose.yml` file and restart.
 
-To get live code changes in the ESAP GUI, uncomment the "volumes" section fot the `gui` service in the `docker-compose.yml` file. NOTE: still to be tested and requires recompiling heh frinted.
+To get live code changes in the ESAP GUI service, clone the source code repo in its folder (so that it will be located in `services/gui/esap-gui`), then uncomment the "volumes" section for the `gui` service in the `docker-compose.yml` file and restart. NOTE: this procedure is still to be tested and still requires recompiling the fronted.
 
 ### Extras