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 This JavaScript package enables users to compile a Noir program, i.e. generating its artifacts.
 
-The package also handles dependency management like how Nargo (Noir's CLI tool) opreates, but the package is used just for compilation, not proving, verifying and simulating functions.
+The package also handles dependency management like how Nargo (Noir's CLI tool) operates, but the package is used just for compilation, not proving, verifying and simulating functions.
 
 ## Building from source