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@@ -27,7 +27,19 @@ Then execute `Atom.app` (or `atom` on Linux, and `atom.exe` on Windows), and
atom-shell will start as your app. The `atom-shell` directory would then be
your distribution that should be delivered to final users.
## Build with grunt
## Packaging your app into a file
Apart from shipping your app by copying all its sources files, you can also
package your app into [asar](https://github.com/atom/asar) archive to avoid
exposing your app's source code to users.
To use the `asar` archive to replace the `app` folder, you need to rename the
archive to `app.asar`, and put it under atom-shell's resources directory,
atom-shell will then try read the archive and start from it.
More details can be found in [Application packaging](application-packaging.md).
## Building with grunt
If you build your application with `grunt` there is a grunt task that can
download atom-shell for your current platform automatically: