From 6ede375d3104961c6c81ea3bc8babe84d98df50e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zsailer <zachsailer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:45:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] how does it work section README

---
 README.md | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9b9b9e516..ca6dcd810 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,4 +35,12 @@ This repo is **experimental** and meant to demonstrate how the notebook could be
     Then run with the default URL set to the notebook tree:
     ```
     jupyter server --default_url="/tree"
-    ```
\ No newline at end of file
+    ```
+
+## How does it work?
+
+Here's a short list of what's happening" 
+* All handlers inherit from the `JupyterExtensionHandler` (i.e. [see here](https://github.com/Zsailer/notebook_server_extension/blob/master/notebook/base/handlers.py))
+* `NotebookApp` inherits from `JupyterExtensionApp`. 
+* `load_jupyter_server_extension` loads config and appends handlers to jupyter server.
+