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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to LearnHouse
+
+## Backend Codebase
+
+### Tech
+
+- **FastAPI** - A high performance, async API framework for Python
+- **Pydantic** - Data validation and settings management using Python type annotations.
+- **Ruff** - An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.
+- **Motor** - the async Python driver for MongoDB and Tornado or asyncio
+- **Uvicorn** - an ASGI web server implementation for Python.
+
+### Get started
+
+Use the Docker Image available in `./Dockerfile`
+
+    docker-compose up -d
+
+Initiate a dev environment, please check the official guide [here](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env)
+
+## Frontend Codebase
+
+### Tech
+
+- **Next.js** (13 with the App Directory) - The React Framework
+- **TailwindCSS** - Styling
+- **Radix UI** - Accessible UI Components
+- **Tiptap** - An editor framework and headless wrapper around ProseMirror
+- **YJS** - Shared data types for building collaborative software
+- **MongoDB** - NoSQL Database
+- **React** - duh
+
+### Get started
+
+Use the Docker Image available in `front/Dockerfile`, or install the frontend package on your computer for greater performance.
+
+#### Start the Backend server first
+
+You need to have the backend running, to initiate a dev environment please check the official guide [here](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env)
+
+#### Environment Files
+
+Please check if you initiated your `.env` files, here is a [guide](https://docs.learnhouse.app/technical-docs/dev-env) on how to do it.
+
+#### Install the frontend package
+
+    npm i
+
+#### Run in Dev environment
+
+    npm run dev
+
+## Submitting Contributions
+
+This project follows [GitHub's standard forking model](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/). Please fork the project to submit pull requests.
+
+### Submitting a bug/fix
+
+- Start an issue [here](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/issues) to report the bug.
+- Please include a detailed description of the bug and how it can be reproduced.
+- Someone from the team will review the issue and will give you a go ahead.
+
+### Submitting a feature / idea
+
+- Start a Discussion [here](https://github.com/learnhouse/learnhouse/discussions/categories/ideas) to propose your idea and how it should be implemented.
+- Someone from the team will review your idea and will give you a go ahead.
+- Start an issue & link the discussion to it.
+- Clone your fork locally
+- Create a new branch and make your commits
+- Push your commits to your forked repo
+- Make a Pull request
+- Code will be added after review