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📝 rename node-webkit to NW.js in development docs

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Replaces all occurences of node-webkit with NW.js in the development
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* [Coding style](development/coding-style.md)
* [Source code directory structure](development/source-code-directory-structure.md)
* [Technical differences to node-webkit](development/atom-shell-vs-node-webkit.md)
* [Technical differences to NW.js](development/atom-shell-vs-nwjs.md)
* [Build instructions (Mac)](development/build-instructions-mac.md)
* [Build instructions (Windows)](development/build-instructions-windows.md)
* [Build instructions (Linux)](development/build-instructions-linux.md)

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# Technical differences to Node-Webkit
# Technical differences to NW.js
Like Node-Webkit, atom-shell provides a platform to write desktop applications
Like NW.js, atom-shell provides a platform to write desktop applications
with JavaScript and HTML, and has Node integration to grant access to low level
system in web pages.
But there are also fundamental differences between the two projects that make
atom-shell a completely separate product from Node-Webkit:
atom-shell a completely separate product from NW.js:
**1. Entry of application**
In Node-Webkit, the main entry of an application is a web page, you specify a
In NW.js, the main entry of an application is a web page, you specify a
main page in the `package.json` and it would be opened in a browser window as
the application's main window.
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**3. Node integration**
In Node-Webkit, the Node integration in web pages requires patching Chromium to
In NW.js, the Node integration in web pages requires patching Chromium to
work, while in atom-shell we chose a different way to integrate libuv loop to
each platform's message loop to avoid hacking Chromium, see the
[`node_bindings`](../../atom/common/) code for how that was done.
**4. Multi-context**
If you are an experienced Node-Webkit user, you should be familiar with the
If you are an experienced NW.js user, you should be familiar with the
concept of Node context and web context, these concepts were invented because
of how the Node-Webkit was implemented.
of how the NW.js was implemented.
By using the [multi-context](http://strongloop.com/strongblog/whats-new-node-js-v0-12-multiple-context-execution/)
feature of Node, atom-shell doesn't introduce a new JavaScript context in web