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title: "Developers"
description: "Home Assistant developer information. Everything to get you started"
date: 2014-12-21 13:32
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Home Assistant is build from the ground-up to be easily extensible by other developers using components. It uses [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) for the backend and [Polymer (Webcomponents)](https://www.polymer-project.org/) for the frontend. 

For further reading, see:
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  <li><a href="{{ root_url }}/developers/architecture.html">
    Home Assistant Architecture
  </a></li>
  <li><a href="{{ root_url}}/developers/frontend.html">Frontend development</a></li>
  <li><a href="{{ root_url}}/developers/creating_components.html">
    Creating a custom component
  </a></li>
  <li><a href="{{ root_url}}/developers/add_new_platform.html">
    Adding support for a new platform
  </a></li>
  <li><a href="{{ root_url }}/developers/api.html">Rest API</a></li>
</ul>