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# Source code directory structure
# Source Code Directory Structure
## Overview
The source code of Electron is separated into a few parts, and we are mostly
The source code of Electron is separated into a few parts, mostly
following Chromium on the separation conventions.
You may need to become familiar with [Chromium's multi-process
architecture](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architecture)
to understand the source code better.
## Structure of source code
## Structure of Source Code
* **atom** - Source code of Electron.
* **app** - System entry code.
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* **common.gypi** - Compiler specific settings and building rules for other
components like `node` and `breakpad`.
## Structure of other directories
## Structure of Other Directories
* **script** - Scripts used for development purpose like building, packaging,
testing, etc.
* **tools** - Helper scripts used by gyp files, unlike `script`, scripts put
here should never be invoked by users directly.
* **vendor** - Source code of third party dependencies, we didn't use
`third_party` as name because it would confuse with the same directory in
`third_party` as name because it would confuse it with the same directory in
Chromium's source code tree.
* **node_modules** - Third party node modules used for building.
* **out** - Temporary output directory of `ninja`.
* **dist** - Temporary directory created by `script/create-dist.py` script
when creating an distribution.
* **external_binaries** - Downloaded binaries of third-party frameworks which
do not support to be built via `gyp`.
do not support building with `gyp`.