Atom Shell

The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

Downloads

Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Windows and Mac can be found on the releases page.

You can also use npm to install prebuilt atom-shell binaries:

# Install globally in your $PATH
npm install atom-shell -g

# Install as a development dependency
npm install atom-shell --save-dev

Mirrors

• China Mirror: Improve download speeds for Chinese user.

Documentation

Guides and the API reference are located in the docs directory. It also contains documents describing how to build and contribute to atom-shell.

Community

There is an atom-shell category on the Atom forums as well as an #atom-shell channel on Freenode.