

Need a library? Choose from over 50 thousand in Node's package repository. Node.js support makes it trivial to access the file system, spawn subprocesses, and even start servers directly from within your editor. Whether you're tweaking the look of Atom's interface with CSS or adding major features with HTML and JavaScript, it's never been easier to take control of your editor. Open the dev tools, however, and Atom's web-based core shines through. Like other desktop apps, it has its own icon in the dock, native menus and dialogs, and full access to the file system. FeaturesĪtom is a desktop application based on web technologies. You can also try the latest beta for Atom here. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted.
