Atom Frontend Development

Atom is based on Chromium, Squirrel, Node.js, JavaScript / CoffeeScript, Json and CSS / less.

Atom is a specialized variant of Chromium designed to be a text editor rather than a web browser.
For example, the layout of our workspace and panes is based on flexbox.
Every Atom window is essentially a locally-rendered web page.

All the APIs available to a typical Node.js application are also available to the code running in each window’s JavaScript context.

• Built-in package manager ctrl-comma
• Smart autocompletion ctrl-space
• File system browser ctrl-o/ctrl-shift-o
• Multiple panes to compare and edit code cmd-k arrow
• Find and replace cmd-f/cmd-shift-f
• Snippets alt-shift-S
• Version control cmd-alt-Z
• Spell checking cmd-:

There are over 1000 open source packages and themes. Because of Open Source there is a very large community.

• Packages https://atom.io/packages
• Themes https://atom.io/themes
• Open Source https://github.com/atom/atom
• Discuss and Slack http://discuss.atom.io/, http://atom-slack.herokuapp.com/

Install Atom on OS X, Windows and Linux

Atom is Open Source and published under Github MIT Licence.

It is a long-term investment, and GitHub will continue to support its development with a dedicated team going forward.
Emacs and Vim already have demonstrated over the past three decades, that if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text editor, it has to be open source.