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 * purs installed and available on your path
 * [purescript-vim](https://github.com/raichoo/purescript-vim)
 * `bower.json` or `package.json` file in the root path of your project
+* `syntastic` for syntax checking
 
 ## Debugging
 Add the following to have psc-ide-vim spit out all logs: