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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~ KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  ~ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  ~ under the License.
+  -->
+
+<!--Generate build output (/docs/latest) that you can deploy locally with something like http-server
+ to look at changes. 
+The actual output used for deploying a staging or prod build is done in
+`druid-website-src`, which is also where version 
+interpolation is done.
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <artifactId>druid-website</artifactId>
+  <name>druid-website</name>
+  <description>Website for druid.apache.org</description>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.druid</groupId>
+    <artifactId>druid</artifactId>
+    <version>28.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <properties>
+    <node.version>v16.17.0</node.version>
+    <npm.version>8.15.0</npm.version>
+  </properties>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
+        <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>install-node-and-npm</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>install-node-and-npm</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <nodeVersion>${node.version}</nodeVersion>
+              <npmVersion>${npm.version}</npmVersion>
+              <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory>
+              <installDirectory>${project.build.directory}</installDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>npm-install</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>npm</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <arguments>ci</arguments>
+              <installDirectory>${project.build.directory}</installDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>spellcheck</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>npm</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>test</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <arguments>run spellcheck</arguments>
+              <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+                    <id>npm-run-build</id>
+                    <phase>compile</phase>
+                    <goals>
+                        <goal>exec</goal>
+                    </goals>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <executable>npm</executable>
+                        <arguments>
+                            <argument>run</argument>
+                            <argument>build</argument>
+                        </arguments>
+                    </configuration>
+                </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
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