## Overview

Atom Shell is a cross-platform desktop application shell. It provides a way to
build native like applications with [node.js](http://nodejs.org) and web page
engine of [Chromium](http://www.chromium.org).

It is powering the [Atom editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).

## Downloads

Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Window and Mac could be found in the
[releases](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases) page, new releases would
also be published there.

## Documents

Visist the [docs](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs) in the
repository for usage guides and API references, it also includes how to build
and contribute to atom-shell.