support standalone library

README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Install a local binary from the Releases section, or run locally:
 ```bash
 # Installation
 python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate   # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
-pip install -e ".[dev]"
+pip install -e ".[server,dev]"
 npm install
 
 # Running the servers
@@ -29,29 +29,46 @@ npm run dev       # terminal 2 — Vite dev server, open the URL it prints
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/VIPQualityPost/tono.git && cd tono
 python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
-pip install -e .
+pip install -e ".[server]"
 cd frontend && npm ci && npm run build && cd ..
 TONO_HOST=0.0.0.0 python -m backend.main
 ```
 
 See [Self-Hosting](docs/self-hosting.md) for reverse proxy setup, environment variables, and configuration.
 
+## Python library
+
+tono's processing nodes can also be used as a standalone Python library — no server needed:
+
+```bash
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+```python
+import tono
+
+fields = tono.load("scan.gwy")
+leveled = tono.apply("PlaneLevelField", fields[0])
+filtered = tono.apply("GaussianFilter", leveled, sigma=2.0)
+```
+
+See [Library Usage](docs/library.md) for the full API and more examples.
+
 ## Docs
 
 - [Building](docs/building.md) — setup, dev mode, web deployment, and native desktop builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows
 - [Self-Hosting](docs/self-hosting.md) — deploying tono on a server
+- [Library Usage](docs/library.md) — using tono as a Python signal processing library
 - [Plugins](docs/plugins.md) — writing and uploading custom node plugins
 - [Testing](docs/testing.md) — running tests and writing new ones
 
-## Project layout
+## Project plans
 
-```text
-tono/
-  backend/         Python server, execution engine, nodes
-  frontend/        React/Vite app
-  plugins/         User plugin files (.py)
-  tests/           Python tests
-  docs/            Documentation
-  desktop.py       Desktop launcher
-  scripts/         Build scripts (macOS, Linux, Windows)
-```
+- Please help with providing demo files for validating importers!
+- Please try making weird workflows to see what breaks or does not flow nicely
+
+- Adding support for force curves
+- Adding general support for spectroscopic data
+- Adding general support for spectroscopic volumes
+
+- Adding more generic numerical operations and visualisations