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anaisbetts on May 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Atom Is Now Open Source

Atom Shell is a runtime environment that you can write your own Node-in-a-web-browser apps against, yeah. Atom-shell is the C++y bits to provide some of the APIs that are available in JS.

The docs for Atom Shell are pretty good, have a look at https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs to get started

swah on May 6, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the explanation. What is not clear to me is if Atom editor is just an app that runs on top of Atom shell.

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