# Atom Shell [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/atom/atom-shell.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/atom/atom-shell)

The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications
using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on [node.js](http://nodejs.org) and
[Chromium](http://www.chromium.org) and is used in the [Atom
editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).

## Downloads

Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Windows and Mac can be found on the
[releases](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases) page.

## Documentation

Guides and the API reference are located in the
[docs](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs) directory. It also
contains documents describing how to build and contribute to atom-shell.