diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ef9770d..45d38b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -227,7 +227,13 @@ docker compose exec app rails db:create
docker compose exec app rails db:migrate
```
-This will load some sample data into the database. You will then need to run the galc-ui application (from the [`galc-ui`](/BerkeleyLibrary/galc-ui) repository) in order to test the API.
+This will load some sample data into the database. You will then need to run the galc-ui application (from the [`galc-ui`](/BerkeleyLibrary/galc-ui) repository) in order to test the API. As a shortcut, you can set the `SERVE_TEST_UI` environment variable to `true` when you bring the containers up to fetch the assets for the latest `galc-ui`' snapshot:
+
+```bash
+docker compose down
+SERVE_TEST_UI=true docker compose up -d
+```
+
If, instead, you want to create the database and not load the sample data, you can run...
```bash
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 2bc0d83..ac735ae 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ services:
ports:
- 3000:3000
restart: always
+ environment:
+ - SERVE_TEST_UI
db:
environment:
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index e0057a2..47ee7f7 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@
-
-
-
+