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title: "Developers"
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description: "Home Assistant developer information. Everything to get you started"
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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.
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Home Assistant is open-source and MIT licensed. The source can be found here:
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- [home-assistant](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant) - Python server-backend
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- [home-assistant-js](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant-js) - javascript-backend powering the client
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- [home-assistant-polymer](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant-polymer) - Polymer UI
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### {% linkable_title Starting development %}
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You will need to setup a development environment if you want to start developing a new feature or component for Home Assistant perform theses steps
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```bash
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$ git clone https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant.git
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$ cd home-assistant
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$ script/setup
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```
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After following these steps, running `hass` will invoke your local installation.
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### {% linkable_title Submitting improvements %}
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Improvements to Home Assistant should be submitted one feature at a time using Github pull
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requests.
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1. Go to [the Home Assistant repository](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant) and click fork in the top right.
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2. Follow steps in the previous section but with your forked repository.
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3. Create a new branch to hold your changes
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`git checkout -b some-feature`
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4. Make the changes you want
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5. Check your changes for style violations
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`./script/lint`
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6. Commit the changes
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`git add .`
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`git commit -m "Added some-feature"`
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7. Push your commited changes back to your fork on GitHub
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`git push origin HEAD`
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8. Follow [these steps](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/) to create your pull request.
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### {% linkable_title Further reading %}
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- [Home Assistant Architecture](/developers/architecture/)
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- [Frontend development](/developers/frontend/)
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- [Creating a custom component](/developers/creating_components/)
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- [Adding support for a new platform](/developers/add_new_platform/)
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- [Rest API](/developers/api/)
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- [Website](/developers/website/)
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