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Suggest electron-rebuild for building native modules

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## How to install native modules
### The Easy Way
The most straightforward way to rebuild native modules is via the
[`electron-rebuild`](https://github.com/paulcbetts/electron-rebuild) package,
which handles the manual steps of downloading headers and building native modules:
```sh
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
# Every time you run npm install, run this too
./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild
```
### The node-gyp way
To build Node modules with headers of Electron, you need to tell `node-gyp`