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Home Assistant is built from the ground up to be easily extensible using components. Home Assistant uses [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) for the backend and [Polymer (Web components)](https://www.polymer-project.org/) for the frontend.

Home Assistant is open-source and MIT-licensed. Here are links to the source::
Home Assistant is open-source and MIT-licensed. Here are links to the source:

- [home-assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant): Python server backend.
- [home-assistant-js](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-js): JavaScript backend that powers the client.
- [home-assistant-polymer](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer): Polymer UI.

For those new to contributing to open source software, make sure you are familiar with all of the tools and concepts used in Home Assistant before you start.

When contributing Home Assistant code:
- [Github](https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/)
- [Pip and Virtual Environments](https://www.dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/)
- [Python 3](https://www.python.org/)
- [Pylint](https://www.pylint.org)
- [Flake8](http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/)
- [Tox](http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
- [TravisCl](https://travis-ci.org/)

When contributing 3rd Party code to be used by Home Assistant:
- [Publishing your own PiPl package](https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/08/16/open-sourcing-a-python-project-the-right-way/)