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## Overview
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The source code of atom-shell is separated into a few parts, and we are mostly
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following Chromium on the separation conventions.
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You may need to become familiar with [Chromium's multi-process
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architecture](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architecture)
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to understand the source code better.
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## Structure of source code
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* **app** - Contains system entry code, this is the most basic level of the
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program.
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* **browser** - The frontend including the main window, UI, and all browser
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side things. This talks to the renderer to manage web pages.
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* **atom** - Initializes the javascript environment of browser.
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* **default_app** - The default page to show when atom-shell is started
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without providing an app.
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* **api** - The implementation of browser side APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **renderer** - Code that runs in renderer.
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* **api** - The implementation of renderer side APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **common** - Code that used by both browser and renderer, including some
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utility functions and code to integrate node's message loop into Chromium's message loop.
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* **api** - The implementation of common APIs, and foundations of
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atom-shell's built-in modules.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **spec** - Automatic tests.
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* **script** - Scripts for building atom-shell.
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## Structure of other directories
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* **vendor** - Build dependencies.
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* **tools** - Helper scripts to build atom-shell.
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* **node_modules** - Third party node modules used for building or running
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specs.
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* **out** - Output directory for `ninja`.
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* **dist** - Temporary directory created by `script/create-dist.py` script
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when creating an distribution.
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* **node** - Downloaded node binary, it's built from
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https://github.com/atom/node/tree/chromium-v8.
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* **frameworks** - Downloaded third-party binaries of frameworks (only on
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Mac).
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